- AIStorm has been founded in 2011 and has been in stealth mode till the recent announcement of $13.2M round A financing.
- AIStorm’s patented chip design is capable of 2.5 Tera Ops and 10 Tera Ops per watt, which said to be 5x to 10x lower than the average GPU-based system’s power.
- The company uses a technique called switched charge processing, which allows the chip to control the movement of electrons between storage elements
- "The TowerJazz pixel is part of our input layer, so the charge comes from sensors, they produce electrons, and we multiply and move them" - says AIStorm
- AIStorm tested its first chip this month and plans to ship production orders next year
- The company’s first products are to be made in 65nm or 180nm process
- AIStorm is planning Series B round for follow up products in 28-nm and possibly finer nodes
- The production chips are aimed to be compatible with popular AI frameworks such as TensorFlow
Thursday, February 14, 2019
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the precision of analog computation is proportional to sqrt(area) and that of digital counterpart is rather 2^area. when the scaling-down continues, the analog computation becomes efficient only in some very specific applications. Hope that NN could be this specific application but with large market scale !
ReplyDeleteThe suggested rule of thumb is not applicable in the case of AIStorm's technology. The solution is scalable, and is not relegated to a limited set of NN applications but is widely applicable. The solution really is a revolutionary breakthrough and completely different to any other AI solution out there.
ReplyDeleteAny technical publications you could cite to back up these bold claims on "revolutionary"?
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