2020 BRN Discussion, page-20794

@Fact Finder

Thanks for the reference @
https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/neuromorphic-chip-market
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On July 19, 2020, AFRL and IBM officially unveiled Blue Raven, which was called "the world's largest neuromorphic digital synaptic supercomputer" by AFRL. In the present scenario, challenges exist in the mobile and autonomous realms due to the limiting factors of power, weight, and size of computing devices commonly referred to as SWaP. The experimental Blue Raven, with its end-to-end IBM TrueNorth ecosystem, is expected to aim to improve on the state-of-the-art by delivering the equivalent of 64 million neurons and 16 billion synapses of processing power while only consuming 40 watts – equivalent to a household light bulb
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So the wattage is way up compared to Akida, but it is an interesting benchmark to follow.
I think it is important that Akida has some normal digital aspects, because it has to manage the input, typically Direct Memory Access, and output, which might be DMA, token ring (such as Texas Instruments SORTE, or wifi.
There is no reason at all why it could not have a co-processor doing other "normal" stuff if that workload was too high.