In addition to 49 qubits beyond the quantum test chip, Intel has also come up with a revolutionary chip for Neuromorphic Computing, To put it simply, is to simulate human brain behavior through digital circuits, which is expected to lead to exponential AI artificial intelligence and higher energy efficiency.
This chip code is'Loihi '(Hawaii undersea volcano name), in fact, has debuted in September 2017, but was only FPGA simulation, Now complete molding, is a full-function silicon chip.
Like the human brain, the Loihi chip delivers information by pulsing or spiking and automatically adjusts for synaptic strength. It learns autonomously and sends commands through various feedbacks in the environment.
Intel said the neuromorphic chip It can eventually be used in any environment that requires real-time data processing , Such as safer cameras and smart city infrastructure, real-time interactive communication with autonomous vehicles, traffic lights automatically adapted to traffic conditions, and cameras looking for missing people.
Intel will share Loihi chips with leading universities and research institutes in the first half of this year for more complex data sets and problems.
There is no specification of the latest news, It was previously disclosed that there are 128 computational cores inside, with 1024 artificial neurons integrated into each core, totaling 131,000 neurons interconnected by 130 million synapses.
Compared to more than 800 billion neurons in the human brain, Intel's chip computing scale is still trivial, Just a little more complicated than the shrimp brain only , But it was a landmark breakthrough that got rid of the shackles of traditional processors and represents the future direction.
