EurekAlert February 24, 2021
Two years ago, researchers at Princeton University fabricated a new chip designed to improve the performance of neural networks. The chip performed tens to hundreds of times better than other advanced microchips. But the chip’s major drawback was that it uses a very unusual and disruptive architecture as it needs to be reconciled with the massive amount of infrastructure and design methodology that we have and use today. Now the team has created software that would allow the new chips to work with different types of networks, allow the systems to be scalable both in hardware and execution of software, programmable across all big and small networks, and programmable across all these networks. The research will be presented at an upcoming conference…read more.
Princeton researchers have created a new chip that speeds artificial intelligence systems called neural nets while slashing power use… Credit: Hongyang Jia/Princeton University