Dan Goldin Has Been Busy
Former NASA Chief Dan Goldin’s Neural Computing Company KnuEdge to Transform Real-World Human-Machine Interaction
“We are not about incremental technology. Our mission is fundamental transformation,” said Dan Goldin, Founder and CEO of KnuEdge. “We were swinging for the fences from the very beginning, with intent to create technologies that will in essence alter how humans interact with machines, and enable next-generation computing capabilities ranging from signal processing to machine learning.”
Former NASA chief unveils $100 million neural chip maker KnuEdge, Venture Beat
“It’s not all that easy to call KnuEdge a startup. Created a decade ago by Daniel Goldin, the former head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, KnuEdge is only now coming out of stealth mode. It has already raised $100 million in funding to build a “neural chip” that Goldin says will make data centers more efficient in a hyperscale age.”
– KnuEdge
They have a development board available; I will be interested to see the first user reviews. The principal product is a highly parallel processor design with 256 cores (on 32 small chips) in a single package. Most of the info on the website discusses voice recognition and AI applications. Maybe someone with CUDA experience can give us their impressions.
The Hermosa processor sounds interesting. It’s not my core area of expertise, but using a multi-layer star topology for intra- and inter-chip communication doesn’t seem utterly revolutionary and groundbreaking to me. What I’d like to see is the instruction set for the tDSPs. Maybe that’s their competitive advantage.