{"id":108386,"date":"2020-06-08T16:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip"},"modified":"2020-06-08T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T23:02:19","slug":"engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip","title":{"rendered":"Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MIT engineers have designed a \u201cbrain-on-a-chip,\u201d smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors\u2014silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with silicon. When they ran the chip through several <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/visual+tasks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">visual tasks<\/a>, the chip was able to \u201cremember\u201d stored images and reproduce them many times over, in versions that were crisper and cleaner compared with existing memristor designs made with unalloyed elements.<\/p>\n<p>Their results, published today in the journal <i>Nature Nanotechnology<\/i>, demonstrate a promising new memristor design for neuromorphic devices\u2014electronics that are based on a new type of circuit that processes information in a way that mimics the brain\u2019s neural architecture. Such brain-inspired circuits could be built into small, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/portable+devices\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">portable devices<\/a>, and would carry out complex computational tasks that only today\u2019s supercomputers can handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT engineers have designed a \u201cbrain-on-a-chip,\u201d smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors\u2014silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain. The researchers borrowed from principles of metallurgy to fabricate each memristor from alloys of silver and copper, along with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}