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AnonTechie [soylentnews.org] writes:

This Brain-Inspired Microchip Is 9,000 Times Faster Than a Normal PC:

Neurogrid: a slab of silicon inspired by the human brain, which is 9,000 times faster than a normal computer brain simulator and uses way less energy to boot. Developed by a team of Stanford bio-engineers, it's worth pointing out that this is hardly the first microchip to be inspired by the human brain- they've come and gone in the past. It is, however, capable of simulating 100s and 1,000s more neurons than any in the past, and on less power than it takes to run an iPad. The research appears in an article for the Proceedings of the IEEE.

It's no wonder scientists want to recreate the brain in silicon: even a mouse cortex can operate 9,000 times faster than a PC, and a even then the computer uses 40,000 times the power, too. Hence Neurorgrid, which uses 16 custom-designed "Neurocore" chips to simulate 1 million neurons and billions of synaptic connections. It's 9,000 times faster, and 100,000 times more energy efficient, than a personal computer simulation of 1 million neurons.

http://www.stanford.edu/group/brainsinsilicon/neur ogrid.html [stanford.edu]

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp ?arnumber=6779629 [ieee.org] (Abstract Viewable rest is Pay Walled)

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