IBM Releases a New Chip that Works Like a Brain!

IBM has developed a new type of chip that processes data similar to the way that your brain processes data. It uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses which may allow IBM to build more intelligent computers. This new kind of computer chip consumes significantly less power and is suited processing images sound and other sensory data. IBM calls it the SyNapse chip and the over 1 million neurons which communicate with one another using electrical spikes are similar to the way actual neurons communicate, which allows it to mimic the connections and synapses of the human brain.

The synapse chip breaks with the design known as the Von Neumann architecture that has been used in computer chips for the last several decades.

Of course, one downside to this new chip is that it requires all new programming languages, since it operates very differently than ordinary computer chips. Of course, IBM has released software development kits so that development can begin on software that works with this chip.

The new SyNapse chip has more transistors than most desktop processors, or, in fact, any chip that IBM has ever made, with over 5 billion, but it consumes very little power. In fact, processors with a similar number of transistors consume tens of Watts of power which is around 10,000 times more power than the 63 mW consumed by the SyNapse chip.