The first artificial neural networks were actually done in hardware, here is Frank Rosenblatt with his Perceptron: http://www.enzyklopaedie-der-wirtschaftsinfo

The first artificial neural networks were actually done in hardware, here is Frank Rosenblatt with his Perceptron: http://www.enzyklopaedie-der-wirtschaftsinformatik.de/wi-enzyklopaedie/Members/wilex4/Rosen-2.jpg/image_preview http://www.enzyklopaedie-der-wirtschaftsinformatik.de/wi-enz... As said, it is an interesting thing to consider as an alternative computer architecture and what not, but I just have some doubts if people practically using neural networks right now really run into performance problems because of having too little cores. I don't think this is more true for neural networks than for anything else.