Neuromorphic computing

Update on Intel’s Neuromorphic Ecosystem Growth and Progress

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What’s New: Today, Intel shared an update on progress within the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC). The group has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018 and now includes more than 100 members, with Intel announcing today the addition of Lenovo, Logitech, Mercedes-Benz and Prophesee to explore the value of neuromorphic computing for business use cases. Additionally, Intel … Continued

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Intel and Sandia National Labs Collaborate on Neuromorphic Computing

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What’s New: Today, Intel Federal LLC announced a three-year agreement with Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) to explore the value of neuromorphic computing for scaled-up computational problems. Sandia will kick off its research using a 50-million neuron Loihi-based system that was delivered to its facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This work with Loihi will lay the foundation … Continued

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Intel and Accenture Support Neuromorphic Research Project to Assist Wheelchair-Bound Pediatric Patients

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What’s New: Intel and Accenture today announced they are supporting an Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) project led by the Neuro-Biomorphic Engineering Lab at the Open University of Israel in collaboration with ALYN Hospital. Using funding and technology support from Accenture, as well as Intel’s neuromorphic technology and algorithmic support from Applied Brain Research (ABR), the … Continued

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Singapore Researchers Look to Intel Neuromorphic Computing to Help Enable Robots That ‘Feel’

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What’s New: Today, two researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS), who are members of the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC), presented new findings demonstrating the promise of event-based vision and touch sensing in combination with Intel’s neuromorphic processing for robotics. The work highlights how bringing a sense of touch to robotics can significantly improve … Continued

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Intel Scales Neuromorphic Research System to 100 Million Neurons

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» Download all images (ZIP, 11 MB) What’s New: Today, Intel announced the readiness of Pohoiki Springs, its latest and most powerful neuromorphic research system providing the computational capacity of 100 million neurons. The cloud-based system will be made available to members of the Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC), extending their neuromorphic work to solve larger, more complex … Continued

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How a Computer Chip Can Smell without a Nose

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Our Expert: Nabil Imam, a senior research scientist in Intel Labs’ neuromorphic computing group, works with olfactory neurophysiologists at Cornell University. “My friends at Cornell study the biological olfactory system in animals and measure the electrical activity in their brains as they smell odors,” explains Imam, who has a doctorate in neuromorphic computing. “On the basis … Continued

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Computers That Smell: Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Can Sniff Out Hazardous Chemicals

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What’s New: In a joint paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, researchers from Intel Labs and Cornell University demonstrated the ability of Intel’s neuromorphic research chip, Loihi, to learn and recognize hazardous chemicals in the presence of significant noise and occlusion. Loihi learned each odor with just a single sample, without disrupting its memory of previously learned … Continued

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Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi Join Intel Neuromorphic Research Community

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What’s New: Today, Intel announced the first corporate members – Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi – to join the fast-growing Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC). The INRC has tripled in size over the past year and now has more than 75 organizations, spanning leading universities around the world, government labs, neuromorphic startup companies, and now … Continued

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Innovation through Collaboration: Building Research Communities

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By Rich Uhlig We find ourselves in a world awash with data growing at an unprecedented rate. And that data is changing in nature with respect to how and where it is collected as we blanket the planet with new sensing technologies. Cameras, microphones and location sensors in our smart phones, attached to our vehicles … Continued

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Intel’s Pohoiki Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System, Delivers Breakthrough Results in Research Tests

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» Download all images (ZIP, 28 MB) What’s New: Today, Intel announced that an 8 million-neuron neuromorphic system comprising 64 Loihi research chips — codenamed Pohoiki Beach — is now available to the broader research community. With Pohoiki Beach, researchers can experiment with Intel’s brain-inspired research chip, Loihi, which applies the principles found in biological … Continued

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Intel Announces Dr. Rich Uhlig as New Managing Director of Intel Labs

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What’s New: Dr. Richard (Rich) Uhlig is the new managing director of Intel Labs. In this role, he will lead Intel Labs in its mission to look beyond today’s product portfolio to discover and research new forms of technology and computing. Intel Labs operates one of the most advanced networks of collaborative university-based research partnerships … Continued

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Intel Announces Neuromorphic Computing Research Collaborators

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What’s New: Today, Intel named academic, government and corporate research groups participating in its Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) and discussed research progress from the inaugural INRC symposium held in October. The goal of the INRC is to tackle the challenges facing the adoption of neuromorphic architectures for mainstream computing applications. INRC members will use Intel’s … Continued

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Intel Labs works with and sponsors leading researchers around the world. That includes prominent university science and technology centers, the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corp. The research from Intel and these agencies is transforming how machines think, learn and adapt. » All Intel Labs News Latest News Intel Spotlights Research in Silicon … Continued

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Intel Creates Neuromorphic Research Community to Advance ‘Loihi’ Test Chip

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By Dr. Michael Mayberry This week, we hosted the Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) workshop at our Oregon campus with the goal of bringing together researchers from different scientific disciplines to discuss and explore the development of next-generation computing architectures, including neuromorphic computing. Today at the workshop, we provided an update on Intel’s neuromorphic research … Continued

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Bobbleheads as Tools to Test Neuromorphic Chips

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How he’d describe his job to a 10-year-old: “We’re working to understand the operation of the brain and copy it on a computer chip.” More: Read about all Intel Innovators Bobbleheads and brains: Mike Davies recently showed the promise of neuromorphic computing to build computing systems that work more like our brains. He used Intel’s … Continued

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Intel’s New Self-Learning Chip Promises to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence

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By Dr. Michael Mayberry Imagine a future where complex decisions could be made faster and adapt over time. Where societal and industrial problems can be autonomously solved using learned experiences. It’s a future where first responders using image-recognition applications can analyze streetlight camera images and quickly solve missing or abducted person reports. It’s a future … Continued

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Intel’s New Self-Learning Chip Promises to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence

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By Dr. Michael Mayberry Imagine a future where complex decisions could be made faster and adapt over time. Where societal and industrial problems can be autonomously solved using learned experiences. It’s a future where first responders using image-recognition applications can analyze streetlight camera images and quickly solve missing or abducted person reports. It’s a future … Continued

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