Imagine an 8-bit multiply & add in a single transistor.
Congrats to this mythical creature & their $30M Series B1 just announced. 🦄 ++
Future Ventures is delighted to support Mythic as they grow.
Mythic implements the basic computation of machine intelligence — matrix multiply and add — by using a standard flash memory array and modifying the peripheral circuitry so that the memory cells store analog values for activation levels (a) for each neuron, and the weights (w) of each synapse. In the digital domain, multipliers and adders take many transistors, each consuming power and time. A Mythic multi-bit multiply and accumulate can be done with a single transistor! Computation and memory are unified, as in the brain. And flash is a non-volatile memory that consumes no power in standby mode.
The march to specialized silicon, from CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC is now going further, to analog and quantum processing. At a high level, we are recapitulating our evolutionary computational march in silicon, and an ever-growing percentage of our compute will be massively parallel and in-memory processing, just like our cortex.
News ► https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/06/12/will-analog-ai-make-mythic-a-unicorn/
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