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on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:05AM
from the maybe-this-will-help-them-sell-their-chip-business dept.
from the maybe-this-will-help-them-sell-their-chip-business dept.
A new kind of computer chip, unveiled by IBM today, takes design cues from the wrinkled outer layer of the human brain. Though it is no match for a conventional microprocessor at crunching numbers, the chip consumes significantly less power, and is vastly better suited to processing images, sound, and other sensory data.
IBM's SyNapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million "neurons," which communicate with one another using electrical spikes-as actual neurons do. The chip uses the same basic components as today's commercial chips-silicon transistors. But its transistors are configured to mimic the behaviour of both neurons and the connections-synapses-between them.
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IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does
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Whoever dies with the most toys wins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bugamn on Sunday August 10 2014, @01:28AM
From the article, it seems like this is a chip designed to implement directly neural networks, and in that they can work faster and consuming less power. Now let's see if they will be used.