August 17, 2014
See how IBM redefine information processing with a cognitive chip - TrueNorth.
"Unlike the prevailing von Neumann architecture—but like the brain—TrueNorth has a parallel, distributed, modular, scalable, fault-tolerant, flexible architecture that integrates computation, communication, and memory and has no clock."
features at a glance:
- One million individually programmable neurons--sixteen times more than the current largest neuromorphic chip
- 256 million individually programmable synapses on chip which is a new paradigm
- 5.4B transistors. By device count, largest IBM chip ever fabricated, second largest (CMOS) chip in the world
- 4,096 parallel and distributed cores, interconnected in an on-chip mesh network
- Over 400 million bits of local on-chip memory (~100 Kb per core) to store synapses and neuron parameters
"The architecture can solve a wide class of problems from vision, audition, and multi-sensory fusion, and has the potential to revolutionize the computer industry by integrating brain-like capability into devices where computation is constrained by power and speed" - Dharmendra Modha, IBM Fellow
see more:
Introducing a Brain-inspired Computer
Brain Power
Cognitive computing
IBM Research Creates New Foundation to Program SyNAPSE Chips
image source: http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml
