Intel launched a new AI chip, simulating how the brain works, accelerating AI processing by 1,000 times

Tram Ho

Intel’s latest chip will abandon the traditional computing architecture to create a system that can model itself in the way the human brain works.

On Monday, the company introduced a neuronorphic simulation (neuromorphic), codenamed “Pohoiki Beach,” capable of processing data like a biological brain by simulating the whole. neural cell network. This approach accelerates the information processing capabilities of semiconductor devices, with Intel’s representative saying: ” It will be 1,000 times faster and 10,000 times more efficient ” than traditional CPUs in Certain work related to AI.

Intel ra mắt chip AI mới, mô phỏng cách hoạt động của bộ não, tăng tốc xử lý AI tới 1.000 lần - Ảnh 1.

Loihi chip.

Pohoiki Beach is made up of 64 smaller “Loihi” chips that can simulate about 8.3 million neurons. This number is likely to be very large, but it is actually only equivalent to the small rodent’s brain. As for the human brain, the number of nerve cells can reach nearly 100 billion.

Anyway, the new chip promises to become the foundation for the latest AI algorithms. In particular, Intel said Pohoiki Beach may have a huge advantage in computing speed related to image recognition, self-driving cars and autonomous robots.

Intel ra mắt chip AI mới, mô phỏng cách hoạt động của bộ não, tăng tốc xử lý AI tới 1.000 lần - Ảnh 2.

Each Nahuku board will contain 16 small chips.

Pohoiki Beach is available free of charge to Intel’s mental research community, including more than 60 different partners. However, the company said it hoped to commercialize the technology at a time when Intel was trying to create a faster, more energy-efficient silicon.

Continuing to increase energy efficiency and performance benefits under Moore’s Law will need more than just narrowing the process .” Intel said in its announcement. ” When complex computing jobs are becoming a normal thing, the need for special architectures designed for specific applications is also increasing .”

Time will tell if this technology could one day appear on the company’s PC processors. But one thing is for sure, that you will see Intel talking more about future morphological chips. Later this year, the company plans to expand this technology to 100 million neurons. However, Intel is not the only one on this road, both Qualcomm and IBM are developing silicon plates in this approach.

Refer to PCMag

 

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