What are neuromorphic computers? The brain as a model

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What are neuromorphic computers?

by Advanced Science News | Mar 13, 2023

To make computers faster and more efficient, scientists are using the brain as a model in this blossoming area of computer science.

With the development of computer chips based on silicon and other semiconductor materials, we have witnessed a technological revolution over the last several decades.

Over time, computers have shrunk from the size of whole rooms to single chips. This trend has been driven by Moore’s law, a term used to refer to the observation made by Gordon Moore in 1965 that predicted that the number of components per integrated chip will double every two years, leading to exponentially faster computers.

But with more sophisticated computers, robots, internet of things (IoT), and intelligent machines, computational demands are only growing, and the semiconductor industry is reaching the limits of its ability to miniaturize computer chips — you can only realistically fit so many transistors on one chip!

Therefore, computer scientists are turning to a new type of computer architecture called neuromorphic computing, in which computers are built to process information and interact with the world like the human brain.

This area of research is largely becoming more and more popular and is fully recognized as the first step in hardware building for computers and artificial intelligence systems. In this Explainer, we delve into everything you need to know about this burgeoning field and what it means for the future of computer science....

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