{"id":108941,"date":"2020-06-20T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip-for-portable-ai-devices"},"modified":"2020-06-20T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:43:49","slug":"engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip-for-portable-ai-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/engineers-put-tens-of-thousands-of-artificial-brain-synapses-on-a-single-chip-for-portable-ai-devices","title":{"rendered":"Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip for Portable AI Devices"},"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-for-portable-ai-devices.gif\"><\/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 \u2014 silicon-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 visual tasks, 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 on June 8, 2020, in the journal <em>Nature Nanotechnology<\/em>, demonstrate a promising new memristor design for neuromorphic devices \u2014 electronics 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, portable devices, 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 \u2014 silicon-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, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108941","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\/108941","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}