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From: doug@axiom.UUCP (Douglas Malech)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Info on NNchip manufacturers?
Summary: Here is a list of nn chip vendors that I got from
	 the computer Network a few months ago.
Message-ID: <27670@axiom.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 90 15:29:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.020540.22177@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <1990Nov26.011712.15826@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
Organization: Axiom Technology, Newton MA
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Company:       Accotech
Chip Name:     AK107
Description:   an Intel 8051 digital microprocessor with its on-
               chip ROM coded for neural networks
Availability:  available now
Company:       Fujitsu Ltd.
Chip Name:     MB4442
Description:   one neuron chip capable of 70,000 connections per
               second
Availability:  available in Japan now

Company:       Hitachi Ltd.
Chip Name:     none yet
Description:   information encoded in pulse trains
Availability:  experimental

Company:       HNC Inc.
Chip Name:     HNC-100X
Description:   100 million connections per second
Availability:  Army battlefield computer

Company:       HNC
Chip Name:     HNC-200X
Description:   2.5 billion connections per second
Availability:  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
               contract

Company:       Intel Corp
Chip Name:     N64
Description:   2.5 connections per second 64-by-64-by-64 with
               10,000 synapses
Availability:  available now

Company:       Micro Devices
Chip Name:     MD1210
Description:   fuzzy logic combined with neural networks in its
               fuzzy comparator chip
Availability:  available now

Company:       Motorola Inc.
Chip Name:     none yet
Description:   "whole brain" chip models senses, reflex, instinct-
               the "old brain"
Availability:  late in 1990

Company:       NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Chip Name:     none yet
Description:   synapse is charge on capacitors that are refreshed
               from RAM
Availability:  experimental

Company:       NEC Corp.
Chip Name:     uPD7281
Description:   a data-flow chip set that NEC sells on PC board
               with neural software
Availability:  available in Japan

Company:       Nestor Inc.
Chip Name:     NNC
Description:   150 million connections per second, 150,000
               connections
Availability:  Defense Dept. contract due in 1991

Company:       Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT)
Chip Name:     none yet
Description:   massive array of 65,536 one-bit processors on 1024
               chips
Availability:  experimental

Company:       Science Applications International. Corp.
Chip Name:     none yet
Description:   information encoded in pulse trains
Availability:  Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
               contract

Company:       Syntonic Systems Inc.
Chip Name:     Dendros-1
               Dendros-2
Description:   each has 22 synapses, two required by any number can
               be used 
Availability:  available now