July 22 Deadline for ASCR Call for Papers: Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing for Science

July 10, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program has announced a Monday July 22 deadline (11:59 pm ET)  for position papers for a workship on neuromorphic computing for science. The workshop website can be found here.  Notification of position acceptance will be issues on Friday, Aug. 2. For […]

Neuromorphic Company Innatera Attracts $21M in Series A Funding

DELFT, NETHERLANDS, 27 June, 2024 — Neuromorphic processor company Innatera, a spin-off from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has announced the oversubscription of its Series A funding round, securing capital totaling $21 million. This amount includes the initial Series A investment of $16 million that the company announced in March this year, […]

HPC News Bytes 20240429: Exorbitant AI Infra-Tech, Advanced Chips in China, Neuromorphic HPC, an AI Bubble?

A good mid-spring morn to you! You’re invited to join Shahin and Doug on a jaunt (6:04) through recent HPC-AI developments, including: AI infra-tech’s booming costs and data center scarcity problems, a possibe AI bubble ….

CEA-Leti: Neuromorphic Device Uses Up to ‘5 Orders of Magnitude’ Less Energy

GRENOBLE, France – July 7, 2022 – Technical research institute CEA-Leti announced it has developed an event-driven, object-localization system that couples piezoelectric, ultrasound transducer sensors to a neuromorphic, resistive memories-based computational map. Presented in a paper published recently in Nature Communications, the research team describes development of an auditory-processing system that increases energy efficiency by up […]

Intel Launches 2nd Loihi Neuromorphic Chip; LANL Investigating ‘Trade-offs’ Between Quantum and Neuromorphic Computing

Intel today released an update on its neuromorphic computing strategy, introducing Loihi 2, its second-generation neuromorphic research chip, and Lava, an open-source software framework for developing “neuro-inspired” applications. Intel said Loihi 2 incorporates learnings from three years of use with the first-generation Loihi chip and leverages progress in Intel’s process technology and asynchronous design methods. The new […]

Intel and Accenture Support Neuromorphic Research Project for Wheelchair-Bound Pediatric Patients

Intel and Accenture today announced support for an Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC) project led by the Neuro-Biomorphic Engineering Lab at the Open University of Israel in collaboration with ALYN Hospital. Using funding and technology support from Accenture, as well as Intel’s neuromorphic technology and algorithmic support from Applied Brain Research (ABR), the Israeli research […]