Traditional NNs didn't work very well either, until we were able to run them at massive scales. That's why they didn't see much adoption or use until the late 2

Traditional NNs didn't work very well either, until we were able to run them at massive scales. That's why they didn't see much adoption or use until the late 2000s/early 2010s. SNNs are much more difficult to run at scale, but that difficulty is solved with analogue computers[1][2]. We don't have details, but I'd bet this is just Intel's crack at a modern analogue processor, with some design concessions specifically for running SNNs. [1] https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/13/4/55 https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/13/4/55 [2] https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/14/6275 https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/23/14/6275