Eyeriss, New Architecture AI Chip, New Frontier of Chip Design

[Arthur Hanson]

The Eyeriss chip is based on a larger architecture that is less reliant on Moore's law, which is rapidly coming to an end. The chip is specifically designed to squeeze more out of deep learning and to a degree uses self learning algorithms to program itself. In a way this sounds like the GAN AI set up by Micron that taught itself chess in just three hours with just the rules of chess as a starting point, I wonder if they are working together or collaborating at all? It looks like the semi world is going to enter a new frontier of chip design. I wonder how this architecture will combine with new memory architectures coming out? Thoughts and comments deeply appreciated.



This chip was demoed at Jeff Bezos’s secretive tech conference. It could be key to the future of AI. - MIT Technology Review

 

[Tanj]

That TechReview article is almost devoid of technical info. Here is a better link:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.07928.pdf

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[Arthur Hanson]

Thanks for the article, it's going to take me some time to pour through it.