Industrial IoT Spotlight EP 185 - Bringing AI to the edge with analog computing
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Aug 9, 2023 AI Snips
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Founders Built Mythic From PhD Projects
- Dave Fick and co-founder Mike Henry started Mythic from their PhD work and SBIR grants that funded early prototypes.
- Their initial projects showed ~100x improvements and steered them into neural network acceleration in 2012.
Analog Packs More Information Per Wire
- Analog stores many more signal levels per wire so it reduces the number of wires that must switch and saves energy.
- That tradeoff accepts some noise but matches ML tasks which need good estimates, not perfect precision.
Analog Lets Bigger Models Beat Pruned Digitals
- Mythic's analog approach can match or exceed digital accuracy by enabling larger neural networks on constrained hardware.
- Customers often lose more accuracy from aggressive model pruning on digital accelerators than from analog noise.