Modha’s chips do the same thing, but at such enormous energy - TopicsExpress



          

Modha’s chips do the same thing, but at such enormous energy savings that the computers they comprise would handle far more data, by design. With the new chips as linchpin, Modha has envisioned a novel computing paradigm, one far more powerful than anything that exists today, modeled on the same magical entity that allowed an impoverished laborer from Mumbai to ascend to one of the great citadels of technological innovation: the human brain. The human brain consumes about as much energy as a 20-watt bulb — a billion times less energy than a computer that simulates brainlike computations. It is so compact it can fit in a two-liter soda bottle. Yet this pulpy lump of organic material can do things no modern computer can.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:06:05 +0000

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