The Ni1000 is an artificial neural network chip developed by Nestor Corporation and Intel, developed in the 1990s. It is Intel's second-generation neural network chip but first all digital. The chip is aimed at image analysis applications, contains more than 3 million transistors and can analyze patterns at the rate of 40,000 per second.[1] Prototypes running with Nestor's OCR software in 1994 were capable of recognizing around 100 handwritten characters per second.The development was funded with money from DARPA and Office of Naval Research.[2]
References
- Intel/Nestor Ni1000 Recognition Accelerator Technical Specification
- Perrone, Michael P.; Cooper, Leon N. (1995). "The Ni1000: High Speed Parallel VLSI for Implementing Multilayer Perceptrons". In Leen, Todd K.; Tesauro, Gerald; Touretzky, David S. (eds.). Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 7 (PDF). MIT Press. pp. 747–754. ISBN 9780262201049. Retrieved 21 October 2022.