Hype Curve of (Hardware) Neural Networks

• 2013: Qualcomm has presented their Zeroth processor for brain-inspired computing.
• 2012: Google X has been working on implementing the largest Deep Neural Network to date on a 16,000-node server.
• 2012: Microsoft Research is applying neural networks to general-purpose (approximate) computing with Neural Processing Units (joint project with Univ. Washington and Univ. of Texas)
• 2012: Intel has opened a Collaborative Research Institute for Computational Intelligence (joint center with Technion and Hebrew University)
• 2011: IBM is developing a Cognitive Chip
• 2010: NEC labs at Princeton is working on mapping neural networks to FPGAs and GPUs

Source: Olivier Temam