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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Intel N64
Message-ID: <62200003@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 23:18:28 GMT
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    I don't have info on the N64 handy, but I just clipped an article from
    Electronic Engineering Times (Apr.9,90,p.2) with an even wilder claim.
    It is short enough to type in - without permission, of course:

    Intel, Nestor plan fastest neural chip

    Providence, R.I. - Nestor Inc. and Intel Corp (Santa Clara) have landed
    a $1.2 million contract from Darpa to fabricate the world's fastest
    neural network microchip.  The target speed for the N1000 is 150 billion
    interconnections per second.  The N1000, to be fabricated in Intel's
    EEPROM memory operation, wil have over 1000 neurons, using 250000 EEPROM
    cells for its synaptic weights and bias signals.
    It will be a single, standalone chip custom-tailored to realize
    Nestor's patented neural model, called restricted-coulomb energy (RCE).
    A special version of its development system will control a state machine
    that allows the chip to learn by programming its EEPROM.

    [[ For us Europeans, that's 150*10^9 interconnections/s. ]]

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com