Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi Join Intel Neuromorphic Research Community
November 18 2019 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
What’s New: Today, Intel announced the first corporate
members – Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi – to join the
fast-growing Intel Neuromorphic Research Community (INRC). The INRC
has tripled in size over the past year and now has more than 75
organizations, spanning leading universities around the world,
government labs, neuromorphic startup companies, and now several
Fortune Global 500 members.
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Members of the Intel Neuromorphic
Research Community share research progress and results at the
group’s October 2019 fall workshop in Graz, Austria. (Credit: Intel
Corporation)
“Our collaborators around the world have made
great progress on pioneering the basic tools, algorithms and
methods needed to make Intel’s neuromorphic technology useful. We
are now encouraging commercially oriented groups to join the
community, and we are thrilled to welcome our first large corporate
members to help push the technology forward. These groups bring
important perspectives, ideas and challenges that can help advance
the research from lab bench to real-world applications.” –Mike
Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab
Why It’s Important: While neuromorphic computing is still
in its infancy, the technology is gaining momentum, driven forward
by companies large and small around the globe. If all technical
challenges are solved in the next few years, analysts forecast the
neuromorphic computing market could rise from $69 million in 2024
to $5 billion in 2029 – and $21.3 billion in 20341.
Intel’s Role: Intel created the INRC – bringing together
leading researchers from academia, industry and government – to
collaboratively tackle the challenges facing the field of
neuromorphic computing. The addition of the first Fortune Global
500 members reflects a growing commercial interest in the
technology, as well as the advancing maturity of the field for
solving artificial intelligence (AI) problems that are not well
suited to conventional deep learning methods. By mimicking the
adaptive behavior of natural neural networks, neuromorphic
technology promises to provide great gains in computing performance
and energy efficiency for demanding applications, ranging from
robotics to smart manufacturing to brain-computer interfaces.
Accenture, Airbus, GE and Hitachi are joining forces with Intel
and other INRC members to create proof-of-concept applications that
will bring the most value to their businesses. Intel will leverage
the insights that come from this customer-centric research to
inform the designs of future processors and systems. These
engagements will ensure Intel remains strategically positioned at
the forefront of neuromorphic technology commercialization.
What New Members are Researching:
- Accenture: Working with 92 of the Fortune Global 100,
Accenture provides services and solutions in strategy, consulting,
digital, technology and operations to help clients shape their
visions for the future. At the heart of this work are Accenture
Labs’ applied R&D technologists, who deliver breakthrough ideas
and technologies that generate new sources of competitive advantage
and drive strategic impact for both Accenture and its clients.
Accenture Labs is exploring how the Intel Loihi neuromorphic
processor can help enterprises prepare for a future that will
require specialized computing and heterogeneous hardware to
maximize computing power for workload-intensive operations – from
smart vehicle interaction to distributed infrastructure monitoring
to speech recognition. “As artificial intelligence continues to
permeate our world, neuromorphic computing has the potential to
transform computing infrastructures to harness its potential in new
ways,” said Edy Liongosari, chief research scientist at Accenture
Labs. “As one of the first commercial research labs working with
neuromorphic processors, Accenture Labs is exploring how
neuromorphic computing can re-envision how systems learn and behave
– to ultimately advance the way we live and work.”
- Airbus: While Airbus is most well-known as a global
leader in aerospace manufacturing, today cybersecurity forms a
large and important part of its internal activity and market
portfolio. Collaborating with Cardiff University, Airbus is
exploring how Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic processor can advance
existing in-house developed automated malware detection technology.
The company expects the addition of Loihi’s real-time learning and
scaling capabilities will enable both faster and more accurate
malware detection, a time-critical problem. This will significantly
aid the fight against ransomware, while at the same time operating
at a low-power level that is well-suited for constant monitoring.
“In the rapidly evolving sphere of cybersecurity, AI, machine
learning and automation will all be vital to protect and improve
the resilience of critical systems and infrastructure. Airbus, in
partnership with Cardiff University, is proud to be leading the way
on research for AI-based cyber-attack detection and processing,”
said Dr. Kevin Jones, global chief information security officer at
Airbus.
- GE: As GE works to create new value across its
industrial products and services portfolio, the company is
exploring how it can utilize the energy efficiency and novel
learning approaches of Intel’s Loihi neuromorphic processor to
improve industrial operations. As part of this endeavor, GE will
research how neuromorphic hardware can bring robust online learning
to the edge of the industrial network to enable adaptive controls,
autonomous inspection and unlock new capabilities such as real-time
inline compression, which would improve data storage utilization
and reduce the overall cost of operation. “Intel’s Loihi
neuromorphic processors have enormous potential to deliver new
capabilities in AI and Edge computing,” said Joel Markham, chief
engineer of the Edge Computing Lab at GE Research. “The flexibility
in programming, ready access to the cloud-based resources and
connections to a robust third-party neuromorphic computing
ecosystem are all key factors industrial companies like GE require
to transform complex industrial systems and networks.”
- Hitachi: Hitachi is unique in the way it combines
information technologies (IT) including AI, big data analytics and
other digital technologies; operational technologies (OT) for
system control and operation; and an extensive range of products.
Through its Social Innovation Business, Hitachi is providing
digital solutions to help resolve challenges faced by customers and
society. “Intel’s Loihi and Spiking Neural Networks have the
potential to recognize and understand the time series data of many
high-resolution cameras and sensors quickly,” said Norikatsu
Takaura, chief researcher of the Research & Development Group
at Hitachi Ltd. “Neuromorphic computing and its technology stack
will improve the scalability and flexibility of edge computing
systems.”
How the INRC Has Grown: Launched in 2018, the INRC is
dedicated to developing and accelerating the capabilities of
neuromorphic computing across commercial and academic environments.
The community now comprises more than 75 groups from 17 countries,
which is a three-times increase since last year.
More Information: Researchers interested in participating
in the INRC and developing for Loihi can visit the Intel
Neuromorphic Research Community website. A list of current members
can also be found at the site.
More Context: Intel Labs (Press Kit) | How Neuromorphic
Computing Uses the Human Brain as a Model (YouTube Video)
About Intel
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shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications
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company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s
greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect
billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected
world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in
between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com
and intel.com.
1 I-Micronews: “Neuromorphic Sensing and Computing 2019,”
September 2019.
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