Re:The Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
by peepeepoopoo3 on Friday March 31, 2023 @12:35AM
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Mythic shut down recently. Well, technically they still exist on paper, but they're a shell of the former selves. It's a shame, really. Their technology is (was) amazing.
They're back actually - They recently raised a new round of funding and are working to release their next-gen chip.
Source: https://mythic.ai/whats-new/mythic-raises-13-million-to-brin...
The interesting part for analog is obviously going to be wear and repeatability, because the digital layer auto-corrects the errors until it becomes damaged and unusable clearly, while analog will slide off somewhat gracefully but you need a way to detect it happening multiple layers later.
AI is somewhat tolerant of errors since, the cumulative error across a lot of biases can approach zero if the errors are random.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg#t=15m44s