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by kirillseva 2954 days ago
Nengo is a very exciting technology. Wonder if they are working with Intel to make nendo models run on the announced spiking neural network processor
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Student from the lab that originally developed Nengo here.

Yes! As far as I know, the company that develops Nengo (ABR) [1] is working on this with Intel [2]. Also see the presentation "Building applications with next generation neuromorphic hardware" from the NICE 2018 workshop [2] (video is available, password is on the top of the page).

[1] https://appliedbrainresearch.com/

[2] https://appliedbrainresearch.com/pressreleases/02-nice-loihi...

[3] http://niceworkshop.org/nice-2018-agenda/

Are there any inner details in Loihi available?

I'm currently working on something I can't speak much about, but it involves heterogeneous NN, different ICs for training and for operation. Operation is that way simpler, and hence significantly faster and more paralleliable, as removes useless logic and the complexity of the "too many clock domains" hell on backpropagation networks.

There are two published articles about it one describing the hardware architecture, the other describing the software architecture.