Longway AI Technologies (Singapore) and General Vision - one of the top 10 Artificial Intelligence companies in the world - have signed a research collaboration agreement to develop a Cognitive SSD.
The 2.5" SSD is basically a configurable neuromorphic search engine that enables energy efficiency and parallel high-speed sorting through big data using Artificial Intelligence (AI).
As per a Media OutReach-forwarded statement received on Wednesday, the Cognitive SSD will be released in the 2nd to 3rd quarter of 2019 with API and SDK.
The presence of the AI engine inside the SSD is said to have solved the problem of data transfer which is dominant in today's solutions, with penalties in speed and power consumption.
A second major advantage, according to the statement, is privacy protection as data does not have to be sent to the cloud or servers to obtain analytics from their content.
The 2.5" Cognitive SSD is powered by a bank of NeuroMem NM500 chips totalling over 8K neurons and delivering more than 50,000 pattern recognition per second at less than 300 mwatts.
The Cognitive SSD can be configured with neuromorphic search engines targeting a variety of data types including but not limited to filenames, text documents, files of genomic sequences, audio files, image and video files, etc.
