Tsinghua Team's AI Vision Chip Makes Second Nature Cover in Three Years

A team from Tsinghua University's Center for Brain-Inspired Computing has developed the Tianmou chip, a brain-inspired vision sensor that has been featured on the cover of Nature for the second time in three years. The chip decomposes visual information into RGB, temporal difference, and spatial difference primitives, organized into two complementary pathways, achieving a 90% reduction in bandwidth while enabling high-speed, high-dynamic-range perception. The team's spin-off company, Xijian Technology, is now commercializing the technology to give AI a more efficient way to see the world.