Guszti.Bartfai@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Guszti Bartfai) (11/28/90)
Hi Nnetters,
Thanks for all of you who have replied to my requests. Here is the list
I compiled from the info I have received so far.
Neural network chip/board manufacturers
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1. HNC, INC.
5501 Oberlin Drive
San Diego
California 92121
(619) 546-8877
and a second address at
7799 Leesburg Pike, Suite 900
Falls Church, Virginia
22043
(703) 847-6808
Note: Australian Dist.: Unitronics
Tel : (09) 4701443
Contact: Martin Keye
HNC markets:
'Image Document Entry Processing Terminal' - it recognises
handwritten documents and converts the info to ASCII.
'ExploreNet 3000' - a NN demonstrator
'Anza/DP Plus'- a Neural Net board with 25MFlop or 12.5M peak
interconnects per second.
2. SAIC (Sience Application International Corporation)
10260 Campus Point Drive
MS 71, San Diego
CA 92121
(619) 546 6148
Fax: (619) 546 6736
3. Micro Devices
30 Skyline Drive
Lake Mary
FL 32746-6201
(407) 333-4379
MicroDevices makes
MD1220 - 'Neural Bit Slice'
Although this sounds similar to Intel's product, the
architectures are not.
4. Intel Corp
2250 Mission College Blvd
Santa Clara, Ca 95052-8125
Attn ETANN, Mail Stop SC9-40
(408) 765-9235
Intel is making an experimental chip:
80170NW - Electrically trainable Neural Network (ETANN)
It has 64 'neurons' on it - almost fully internally connectted
and the chip can be put in an hierarchial architecture to do 2 Billion
interconnects per second.
Support software has already been made by
California Scientific Software
10141 Evening Star Dr #6
Grass Valley, CA 95945-9051
(916) 477-7481
Their product is called 'BrainMaker'.
5. NeuralWare, Inc
Penn Center West
Bldg IV Suite 227
Pittsburgh
PA 15276
They only sell software/simulator but for many platforms.
6. Tubb Research Limited
7a Lavant Street
Peterfield
Hampshire
GU32 2EL
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 730 60256
Special thanks to Jay Diamond, Evan M. Manning, David Guedalia, George
N. Yaremchuk, Peter Egelberg, Duane Snider, Wey Jing Ho.
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