Artificial intelligence and machine learning specialist Brainchip says it has shipped a BrainChip Accelerator card to a major European automobile manufacturer.
Bob Beachler, senior vice president for marketing and business development, said: “This is an exciting first evaluation of BrainChip Accelerator. Our spiking neural network provides instantaneous ‘one-shot’ learning, is fast at detecting, extracting and tracking objects and is very low-power. These are critical attributes for automobile manufacturers processing the large amounts of video required for ADAS and AV applications.”
According to the company, the Accelerator increases the performance of object recognition provided by its software and algorithms. The low-power accelerator card can detect, extract and track objects using proprietary spiking neural network technology. It is said to provide a sevenfold improvement in images/second/Watt, compared to traditional convolutional neural networks accelerated by GPUs.
“We look forward to working with this world-class automobile manufacturer in applying our technology to meet its requirements,” Beachler added.
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Graham Pitcher
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk