- In February 2024, SynSense (China) acquired iniVation AG (Switzerland) to become a leading provider of neuromorphic technology. The merger combines SynSense's expertise in ultra-low-power processing with iniVation's neuromorphic vision sensing capabilities, creating the SynSense Group. This integration is expected to enhance intelligent vision systems across various industries, including consumer electronics, robotics, aerospace, and automotive sectors, positioning the company as a key player in advancing neuromorphic technology
- In March 2024, NXP Semiconductors (Netherlands) and NVIDIA Corporation (U.S.) collaborated to boost AI deployment by integrating NVIDIA's TAO Toolkit with NXP's edge devices. This partnership enables NVIDIA's pre-trained AI models to run efficiently on NXP's Neural Processing Units (NPUs) in i.MX 93 processors, facilitating faster development and deployment of AI-driven applications across multiple industries
- In April 2024, Intel revealed the world’s largest neuromorphic system, named Hala Point, which is powered by Intel's Loihi 2 processor. This system is designed to advance research in brain-inspired AI and overcome the challenges of current AI technologies. Compared to Intel's earlier system, Pohoiki Springs, Hala Point significantly improves neuron capacity by over tenfold, offering approximately twelve times better performance. It can handle up to 20 quadrillion operations per second while achieving an efficiency of more than 15 trillion 8-bit operations per second per watt, while executing standard deep neural networks
- In October 2023, IBM unveiled its new chip architecture, NorthPole, specifically designed for neural inference, with results published in Science. NorthPole can run AI-powered image recognition tasks more efficiently and with lower latency compared to existing chips. It performs 4,000 times faster than its predecessor, the TrueNorth chip. Developed in IBM Research’s California lab, the NorthPole chip is set to revolutionize the scalability of advanced AI hardware systems
- In December 2022, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and NAVER Corporation, the operator of the search engine Naver, joined forces to develop semiconductor solutions optimized for hyper-scale artificial intelligence (AI) models. By combining their hardware and software expertise, the companies aim to accelerate the processing of large AI workloads, enhancing the efficiency and scalability of AI systems for advanced applications
