Neural inference at the frontier of energy, space, and time
Computing, since its inception, has been processor-centric, with memory separated from compute. Inspired by the organic brain and optimized for inorganic silicon, NorthPole is a neural inference architecture that blurs this boundary by eliminating off-chip memory, intertwining compute with memory on-chip, and appearing externally as an active memory chip. NorthPole is a low-precision, massively parallel, densely interconnected, energy-efficient, and spatial computing architecture with a co-optimized, high-utilization programming model. On the ResNet50 benchmark image classification network, relative to a graphics processing unit (GPU) that uses a comparable 12-nanometer technology process, NorthPole achieves a 25 times higher energy metric of frames per second (FPS) per watt, a 5 times higher space metric of FPS per transistor, and a 22 times lower time metric of latency. Similar results are reported for the Yolo-v4 detection network. NorthPole outperforms all prevalent architectures, even those that use more-advanced technology processes.
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Nature Electronics
3 publications, 4.11%
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Nature Communications
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Nanomaterials
2 publications, 2.74%
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Nature
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Electronics (Switzerland)
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Neural Networks
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Nanobiotechnology Reports
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Science
1 publication, 1.37%
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ACS Applied Nano Materials
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JPSJ News and Comments
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Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering
1 publication, 1.37%
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Journal of Computer Science and Technology
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Current Opinion in Structural Biology
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Modern Electronic Materials
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NDT
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Proceedings of the IEEE
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Advanced Functional Materials
1 publication, 1.37%
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Results in Engineering
1 publication, 1.37%
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Pattern Analysis and Applications
1 publication, 1.37%
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Mesoscience and Nanotechnology
1 publication, 1.37%
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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
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IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
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InfoMat
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Chemical Reviews
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Scientia Sinica Informationis
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IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine
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Advanced Materials
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Springer Nature
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Elsevier
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MDPI
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Wiley
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Pleiades Publishing
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Physical Society of Japan
1 publication, 1.37%
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Pensoft Publishers
1 publication, 1.37%
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SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng
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Treatise
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Science in China Press
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Frontiers Media S.A.
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AIP Publishing
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IOP Publishing
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