About General Vision
General Vision makes trainable pattern-recognition technology called NeuroMem. Many simple hardware neurons each store an example and compare new input against it in parallel, so a system learns by being shown samples rather than being programmed. Its NM5500 chip has 5,500 neurons. The company also builds CogniSight vision systems, used for example to inspect fish aboard vessels in Norway and Iceland, and sensors for flat-glass inspection. Intel holds a licence to NeuroMem, which is used in the Curie module in the Arduino 101.
General Vision was founded in 1987 and is based in San Francisco, CA, United States. It is listed under Neuromorphic Computing.
Compute Technologies
- Neuromorphic
What General Vision works on
Neuromorphic Computing
Neuromorphic computing builds chips that copy some features of the brain. Instead of a central processor and separate memory, a neuromorphic chip has many small units that act like neurons, each with its own local memory, joined by connections that act like synapses.
