TIME, SPACE, AND ENERGY EFFICIENT NEURAL INFERENCE VIA PARALLELISM AND ON-CHIP MEMORY

摘要

Neural inference chips and cores adapted to provide time, space, and energy efficient neural inference via parallelism and on-chip memory are provided. In various embodiments, the neural inference chips comprise: a plurality of neural cores interconnected by an on-chip network; a first on-chip memory for storing a neural network model, the first on-chip memory being connected to each of the plurality of cores by the on-chip network; a second on-chip memory for storing input and output data, the second on-chip memory being connected to each of the plurality of cores by the on-chip network.