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Intel Advances Neuromorphic with Loihi 2, New Lava Software Framework and New Partners
Second-generation research chip uses pre-production Intel 4 process and grows to 1 million neurons. Intel adds open software framework to accelerate
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nSecond-generation research chip uses pre-production Intel 4 process and grows to 1 million neurons. Intel adds open software framework to accelerate developer innovation and path to commercialization.\n\n SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nWhat’s New: Today, Intel introduced Loihi 2, its second-generation neuromorphic research chip, and Lava, an open-source software framework for developing neuro-inspired applications. Their introduction signals Intel’s ongoing progress in advancing neuromorphic technology.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210930005258/en/A photo shows Intel’s Loihi 2 neuromorphic chip on the tip of a finger. Loihi 2 is Intel's second-generation neuromorphic research chip. It supports new classes of neuro-inspired algorithms and applications, while providing faster processing, greater resource density and improved energy efficiency. It was introduced by Intel in September 2021. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)\n“Loihi 2 and Lava harvest insights from several years of collaborative research using Loihi. Our second-generation chip greatly improves the speed, programmability, and capacity of neuromorphic processing, broadening its usages in power and latency constrained intelligent computing applications. We are open sourcing Lava to address the need for software convergence, benchmarking, and cross-platform collaboration in the field, and to accelerate our progress toward commercial viability.”\n-- Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab\n\nWhy It Matters: Neuromorphic computing, which draws insights from neuroscience to create chips that function more like the biological brain, aspires to deliver orders of magnitude improvements in energy efficiency, speed of computation and efficiency of learning across a range of edge applications: from vision, voice and gesture recognition to search retrieval, robotics, and constrained optimization problems.\n\nApplications Intel and its partners have demonstrated to date include robotic arms, neuromorphic skins and olfactory sensing.\n\nAbout Loihi 2: The research chip incorporates learnings from three years of use with the first-generation research chip and leverages progress in Intel’s process technology and asynchronous design methods.\n\n\nAdvances in Loihi 2 a...