August 1, 2012

Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons




Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons

A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet

For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive. Sure, they can pilot aircraft and simulate nuclear reactors. But even our best machines struggle with tasks that we humans find easy, like controlling limbs and parsing the meaning of this paragraph.

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