Neuromorphic computing is a complete rethinking of computer architecture from the bottom up. The goal is to apply the latest insights from neuroscience to create chips that function less like traditional computers and more like the human brain. Neuromorphic systems replicate the way neurons are organized, communicate, and learn at the hardware level. Intel sees it’s Loihi research chip and future neuromorphic processors defining a new model of programmable computing to serve the world’s rising demand for pervasive, intelligent devices.
News
- Intel Advances Neuromorphic with Loihi 2, New Lava Software Framework and New Partners | Technical Brief | Partner Quotes
- Update on Intel’s Neuromorphic Ecosystem Growth and Progress
- Intel and Sandia National Labs Collaborate on Neuromorphic Computing
- Intel and Accenture Support Neuromorphic Research Project to Assist Wheelchair-Bound Pediatric Patients
- Singapore Researchers Look to Intel Neuromorphic Computing to Help Enable Robots That ‘Feel’
- Intel Scales Neuromorphic Research System to 100 Million Neurons
- Computers That Smell: Intel’s Neuromorphic Chip Can Sniff Out Hazardous Chemicals
- How a Computer Chip Can Smell without a Nose
- Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi Join Intel Neuromorphic Research Community
- Opinion: Intel’s Mike Davies Discusses Need for Neuromorphic Computing Benchmarks in Nature
- Innovation through Collaboration: Building Research Communities
- Intel’s Pohoiki Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System, Delivers Breakthrough Results in Research Tests
- Intel Announces Neuromorphic Research Progress
- Intel Creates Neuromorphic Research Community to Advance ‘Loihi’ Test Chip
- Bobbleheads as Tools to Test Neuromorphic Chips
- Intel’s New Self-Learning Chip Promises to Accelerate Artificial Intelligence
- Biographies: Rich Uhlig | Mike Davies
- Other Press Kits: Quantum Computing | Intel Labs
Images
A close-up photo shows Loihi, Intel’s neuromorphic research chip. Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Pohoiki Beach, will be comprised of 64 of these Loihi chips. Pohoiki Beach was introduced in July 2019. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
A close-up shot of an Intel Nahuku board, each of which contains 8 to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic chips. Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Pohoiki Beach, is made up of multiple Nahuku boards and contains 64 Loihi chips. Pohoiki Beach was introduced in July 2019. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
Kapoho Bay is Intel's codename for a a USB form factor based on the Loihi neuromorphic research chip system. Kapoho Bay provides a USB interface to Loihi, allowing access with peripherals. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
One of Intel’s Nahuku boards, each of which contains 8 to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic chips, shown here interfaced to an Intel Arria 10 FPGA development kit. Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Poihoiki Beach, annuounced in July 2019, is made up of multiple Nahuku boards and contains 64 Loihi chips. Pohoiki Beach was introduced in July 2019. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
Rachel Gehlhar of Caltech’s AMBER Lab and Terry Stewart of Canada’s National Research Council are working to control the AMPRO3 prosthetic leg with Intel’s Kapoho Bay Loihi device so that the leg can better adapt to unforeseen kinematic disturbances while walking. (Credit: Sumit Bam Shrestha)
Researchers at the 2019 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop are working to automate Western Sydney University’s foosball table under Loihi control, operating on visual input from event-based cameras. Foosball offers an excellent test for rapid closed-loop sensing, planning and control algorithms, a sweet spot for neuromorphic technology. (Credit: Sumit Bam Shrestha)
Mike Davies, who leads Intel’s neuromorphic computing program, holds a bobblehead of scientist Rosalind Franklin that Loihi, Intel’s self-learning research chip, quickly learned to identify. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
Dr. Richard Uhlig is the managing director of Intel Labs. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Rich Uhlig, managing director of Intel Labs, holds one of Intel’s Nahuku boards, each of which contains eight to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic chips. Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Pohoiki Beach, is made up of multiple Nahuku boards and contains 64 Loihi chips. Pohoiki Beach was introduced in July 2019. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
A close-up shows an Intel Nahuku board, each of which contains eight to 32 Intel Loihi neuromorphic research chips. Intel’s latest neuromorphic computing system, Pohoiki Springs, was unveiled in March 2020. It is made up of 24 Nahuku boards with 32 chips each, integrating a total of 768 Loihi chips. (Credit: Tim Herman/Intel Corporation)
A closer look shows one of the rows within Intel’s latest neuromorphic research system, Pohoiki Springs. The system, unveiled in March 2020, is made up of eight of these rows, with each containing three 32-chip Intel Nahuku boards, for a total of 768 Loihi chips. The ninth row is made up of Arria10 FPGA boards. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Pohoiki Springs, a data center rack-mounted system unveiled in March 2020, is Intel’s largest neuromorphic computing system developed to date. It integrates 768 Loihi neuromorphic research chips inside a chassis the size of five standard servers. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
A photo shows Intel’s latest neuromorphic system, Pohoiki Springs, and one of the rows within it. The system unveiled in March 2020 integrates 768 Loihi neuromorphic research chips inside a chassis the size of five standard servers. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Resources
- Intel Labs Press Kit
- Intel Labs Overview
- Intel Labs Neuromorphic Computing Overview
- Intel Labs Neuromorphic Partnerships
- Intel Neuromorphic Research Community
- How Neuromorphic Computing Uses the Human Brain as a Model
- 2018 CES: Neuromorphic Computing Mimics the Human Brain
- Intel’s ‘Loihi’ Neuromorphic Chip in the Lab
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