IBM has helped create an electronic “brain chip” after a decade of research. If all goes as planned, it could be one of the greatest inventions of the computing era, and this is not an understatement.

Neurons and synapses: these are words typically associated with organic lifeforms. Those days are gone though. IBM just revealed the SyNapse, a CPU that’s designed to work very much like a human brain ...

A computer chip that thinks like a neuron in the human brain and sips a fraction of the power of traditional processors could finally open the door to cognitive computing, IBM researchers claim today.

While MIT may be at the head of the class when it comes to feasible innovation, IBM just polished the teacher's apple with the creation of its new SyNAPSE chip, which is a fractional human brain in a ...

Technology giant IBM is developing a new type of chip to help computers think like humans See more from the 20 innovations for 2015 series Computers are pretty good at some things, like number ...

Neural network processing is a specialized massive-parallel VLSI world that only occasionally involves FPGA archtitectures. But when Dharmendra Modha, principal SyNAPSE investigator at IBM Research, ...

Let’s just say you came up with a computer chip that was able to mimic the thought processes of the human brain. That’s exactly what IBM is trying to do. What name could they give for this seemingly ...

The Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics chip, fortunately known by the acronym of the SyNAPSE chip, is designed to copy the interactions of neurons and synapses in the human ...

IBM’s pursuit of a chip far more powerful, small and light than the existing options takes its inspiration from a familiar source: the human brain. The company revealed the second generation of its ...

A lot has changed in the three years since IBM first unveiled a prototype of its human brain-inspired SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) chip. That single-core ...

IBM has unveiled an experimental chip that borrows tricks from brains to power a cognitive computer, a machine able to learn from and adapt to its environment. "Each neuron in the brain is a processor ...