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Nervana TPUs aren't rebranded x86 cores. They aren't neuromorphic either, and I don't know what neuromeristive is.

Neuromorphic means brain like, so basically, super parallel.

Neuromemristive,although I haven't heard the term before, means using memristors to compute artificial neural networks.

>using memristors to compute artificial neural networks

What does that mean?

That means memristors are used to store neural network weights, and a signal passing through a memristor would be effectively multiplied (scaled) by the weight value.

Interesting. I wonder if the technology will ever be economically viable to build chips out of.

Perhaps it uses a memrister?

I think memristers are an HP thing. Intel's competing product is 3D cross point, which, according to marketing is a persistent memory technology that's higher density than DRAM and faster than flash.

There are a bunch of companies with memristor based products, HP is just the loudest about it.

Not just the loudest, it was the first one to implement them.

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