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Though neuromorphic architectures are interesting, the Loihi is essentially an ASIC for Spiking Neural Networks [1]. The lower power consumption than GPUs is du
by arathore 7y ago
Though neuromorphic architectures are interesting, the Loihi is essentially an ASIC for Spiking Neural Networks [1]. The lower power consumption than GPUs is due to the limited nature of computation that can be performed on these chips (which is generally true for ASICs).
[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/loihi https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/loihi