Imagination Technologies has just announced the Series3NX line of Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) architectures. These products are designs that can be licensed by system-on-a-chip (SoC) manufacturers to include in their designs. The previous design, Series2NX, has seen some design wins, which Imagination claims is “predominantly focused in the mobile and automotive markets”.
Actually, there are two announcements today: Series3NX and Series3NX-F.
The base NNA core is the Series3NX. Their press kit mentions six SKUs: AX3125 with 0.6 trillion operations per second (TOPS), AX3145 with 1.2 TOPS, AX3165 with 2.4 TOPS, AX3185 with 5 TOPS, and AX3195 with 10 TOPs. Multiple of these cores can be integrated at the same time, which allows products with over 160 TOPS of performance. These designs are available now for licensing.
This brings us to the Series3NX-F. This product combines a Series3NX core with a programmable, floating-point processor (based on the latest PowerVR Rogue architecture) and some RAM. This will be available to license in Q1 2019.
