Nepes AI, a business unit of nepes (South Korea), launches the NM500 chip, the smallest neuromorphic IC available on the market and featuring no less than a NeuroMem neural network with 576 neurons. The chip can be integrated into sensors and IOT platforms to deploy pattern learning and recognition at the edge. Conveniently packaged in a wafer scale package, the chip delivers 120,000 pattern recognitions per second for less than 125 mW. Early adopters can put the neurons into use immediately with nepes’ NeuroShield module interfacing to the low-cost Arduino microcontroller boards through SPI.