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From: jdirbas@partech.com (Joseoh Dirbas)
Subject: Re: NN hardware
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 22:47:31 GMT
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In article <ZqwfN7l.predictor@delphi.com>, Will Dwinnell
<predictor@delphi.com> wrote:

> Patrick R. Byrne <pbyrne@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca> writes:
>  
> >Hi, I really don't know much about neural-nets but from what I understand 
> >it is all software run on serial computers. I have recently read that 
> >intel and some other company have come up with a NN chip and they called 
> >it the Ni 1000. They say it should be 1000 times faster than NN software. 
> >I was wondering where i could read more about this and also if highly 
> >parallel chips like this would soon be making it to desktop PCs and 
> >replacing the now standard serial chips. 
>  
>  
> The other company is Nestor, though I don't have contact information
> handy.  If I'm not mistaken, this hardware runs Nestor's NLS
> architecture.
>  
Nestor uses it for OCR.  I don't think Intel supports the chip anymore for
general purpose use.

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