Neuromorphic Chip Gets $1 Million in Pre-Orders

eetimes.com, Aug. 11, 2022 – 

Neuromorphic computing company GrAI Matter has $1 million in pre–orders for its GrAI VIP chip, the company told EE Times.

The startup has engagement to date from companies across consumer Tier-1s, module makers (including ADLink, Framos, and ERM), U.S. and French government research, automotive Tier-1s and system integrators, white box suppliers, and distributors.

As with previous generations of the company's Neuron Flow core, the company's approach for its GrAI VIP chip uses concepts from event–based sensing and sparsity to process image data efficiently. This means using a stateful neuron design (one that remembers the past) to process only information that has changed between one frame of a video and the next, which helps avoid processing unchanged parts of the frames over and over again. Combine this with a near–memory compute/dataflow architecture and the result is low–latency, low–power, real–time computer vision.

The company's first–generation chip–GrAI One–was launched in autumn 2019. A second generation was produced solely for a project GrAI Matter worked on with the U.S. government, making GrAI VIP a third–gen product.

GrAI VIP can handle MobileNetv1–SSD running at 30fps for 184 mW, around 20× the inferences per second per Watt compared to a comparable GPU, the company said, adding that further optimizations in sparsity and voltage scaling could improve this further.

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