Spectrum and Innatera appear to have a little dig at Pico and also they're hooking up with Socionext, one of our earlier partners (Synquacer?) that appears to have not done much so far other than the first chips
Innatera's Pulsar chip, the first commercial neuromorphic microcontroller, promises ultra-low power AI with 100x lower latency.
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Spiking Neural Network Chip for Smarter Sensors
Innatera’s chip promises lower latency and power consumption for edge AI
Charles Q. Choi
14 hours ago
4 min read
Excerpt:
What Makes Pulsar Unique in AI Sensors?
What sets Pulsar apart from other neuromorphic devices, such as
BrainChip’s Akida Pico, “is not just building a neuromorphic core, but also the rest of the system around it,” Kumar says. “In the industry, there’s a lot of emphasis on
inference, but when their neuromorphic cores speak with the rest of their systems, you see them burning power moving data in and out, and all the energy gains they can bring to the table quickly become irrelevant. We built Pulsar as an engine for efficient processing, not just efficient
inference.”
By integrating all these functions together, “it’s the only chip a sensor needs to process data,” Kumar says. This can simplify overall device design, which can reduce the need for complex data signal-processing pipelines, speed up development and time to market, lower maintenance costs, extend battery life and enable submillisecond analysis times.
With submilliwatt power consumption, “Pulsar enables always-on processing of sensor data, even in devices radically constrained by power,” Kumar says. For example, it can enable radar-based presence detection with as little as 600 microwatts and audio scene
classification with just 400 µW. In comparison, similar applications using conventional electronics consume 10 to 100 milliwatts, he notes.
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Innatera is partnering with the Japanese
system-on-a-chip company
Socionext to develop a radar-based sensor that can accurately detect people even if they are standing perfectly still, based on their body motions as they breathe. “It can ignore things like bushes moving in the wind,” Kumar says. “It can extend smart doorbell operations to 18 months per recharge. And since it’s not camera-based and doesn’t store data in the cloud, it helps protect privacy.”
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