Post by Dharmendra Modha

New in Science Magazine, a major new article from IBM Research, IBM introducing a new brain-inspired, silicon-optimized chip architecture suitable for neural inference. The chip, NorthPole, is the result of nearly two decades of work by scientists at IBM Research and has been an outgrowth of a 14 year partnership with United States Department of Defense (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Air Force Research Laboratory). NorthPole, implemented using a 12-nm process on-shore in US, outperforms all of the existing specialized chips for running neural networks on ResNet50 and Yolov4, even those using more advanced technology processes. Additional results on BERT-base were presented at Hot Chips Symposium. To learn more: - Science paper with a mention on the cover (paywall): https://lnkd.in/gXsxCZYr (can be downloaded from https://modha.org without paywall) - Science perspective on our paper (paywall): https://lnkd.in/gnJDZTPp - A 3-min summary video: https://lnkd.in/gXBhUbRU - IBM Research blog: https://lnkd.in/gHhH9hKb - My blog (with a LOT of details): https://modha.org - Hot Chips Symposium video: https://lnkd.in/gUSVR9zK - HotChips slides (IEEE, IEEE Xplore paywall): https://lnkd.in/gRf5YX5h #innovation #technology #creativity #future #artificialintelligence #engineering #deeplearning #research #ai #computerscience #neuralnetworks #northpole #neuromorphic #ibmresearch #ibm