Five bucks and nine processor cores. That’s the takeaway from GreenWaves’ new GAP8 processor chip. The chip is low power consumption, measured in nanoamps, has parallel-programming tools, convolutional neural net (CNN) acceleration and an Arduino-esque development board.
GreenWaves is a 16-person startup with headquarters outside scenic Grenoble, France. Their first (and so far, only) product is GAP8, a microcontroller intended to bring CNN smarts to cheap, battery-powered IoT edge devices. The chip combines some familiar open-source hardware with some unfamiliar, proprietary circuitry to create something the company thinks will be smarter and more power-efficient than anything the world’s many and varied Arm licensees can conjure up.
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