RE: The Intel zdnet article...IMHO, this article is nothing more...

RE: The Intel zdnet article...

IMHO, this article is nothing more than a carefully crafted marketing piece. If the narrative is disected, yes, Intel and Merc are in the same article, but not together if that makes sense. The attention grabbing headline:
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“Intel, partners make new strides in Loihi neuromorphic computing chip development”

has a subheading that is its own statement, which could easily be read as a continuation of the heading
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"Lenovo and Mercedes-Benz have also signed upas new members in the INRC neuromorphic community project."The following statements lead to the real information the company is deligently softening the market with.. “progress in neuromorphic computing has "come at the cost of ever-increasing power consumption, [...] posing challenges for AI and the democratization of AI" -- a bottleneck hurdle that the company wants to overcome.”

Democratization is an interesting word, is this because there is only one leader at the moment?

Intel then goes on to compare a Neuromorphic Chip with a GPU.. in my opinion, we lined up our Supercharged Ford against a Taxi, and look how much we beat it by! Lets not line it up against Brainchips Akida Ferrari.

"In particular, the company has been examining automotive AI,in which the power consumption of standard GPUs is currently too high toinclude advanced AI applications."

Tests found that "acceptable"accuracy results have been achieved so far -- but the real highlight is areported 1,000 times energy efficiency improvement in comparison to a standardGPU"

"...over1,000 times more efficiently and 100 times faster than standard CPUs."




A reference to Intels own image of gains reflects the true position, they have made gains in areas of efficiency and speed which naturally will benefit "capacity per dollar due" to the same efficiency and speed measures being a component of the capacity per dollar measure. Unfortunately, precision has not moved from a standard conventional chip, and this image is a demonstration in my opinion of why when compared to the Valeo release.
How Loihi sees the world:



How Valeo sees the world:




Finally, what does Merc have to do with this?

"In two short years, we've formed avibrant community comprising hundreds of researchers around the world inspiredby the promise of neuromorphic computing to deliver orders of magnitude gainsin computing efficiency, speed, and intelligent functionality,"

In my opinion, they need as much help as they can to get Loihi commercialised, and so they have created a "research community" to help them get there.. in my mind this article was nothing more than a paid piece that Intel has to have to keep their name out there amongst the Neuromorphic computing community.