{"id":28946,"date":"2016-08-15T06:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/samsung-plugs-ibms-brain-imitating-chip-into-an-advanced-sensor"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:59:01","slug":"samsung-plugs-ibms-brain-imitating-chip-into-an-advanced-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/samsung-plugs-ibms-brain-imitating-chip-into-an-advanced-sensor","title":{"rendered":"Samsung plugs IBM\u2019s brain-imitating chip into an advanced sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/samsung-plugs-ibms-brain-imitating-chip-into-an-advanced-sensor.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/research.ibm.com\/cognitive-computing\/neurosynaptic-chips.shtml#fbid=Wv7-rNCBLU6\">TrueNorth<\/a>, a so-called \u201ccognitive chip,\u201d remarkably resembles the human brain: its 4,096 cores combine to create about a million digital neurons and 256 million synapse connections. In short, like everyone\u2019s favorite complex organ, it operates extremely quickly and consumes far less energy than typical processors. Samsung has taken the chip and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/samsung-turns-ibms-brain-like-chip-into-a-digital-eye\/#ftag=CAD590a51e\">plugged<\/a> it into its Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) to process digital imagery at a blindingly fast rate.<\/p>\n<p>Typical digital cameras max out 120 frames per second, but a DVS-equipped gadget can capture an incredible 2,000 fps. Unlike a conventional sensor, each pixel on Samsung\u2019s only reacts if it needs to report a change in what it\u2019s seeing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/samsung-turns-ibms-brain-like-chip-into-a-digital-eye\/#ftag=CAD590a51e\">according<\/a> to <em>CNET<\/em>. That high speed could be useful for creating 3D maps or gesture controls. At a press event on Thursday in San Jose, the company demonstrated its ability to control a TV as it recognized hand waves and finger pinches from ten feet away.<\/p>\n<p>DVS is efficient like its TrueNorth chip base, and only consumes about 300 milliwatts of power. That\u2019s about a hundredth the drain of a laptop\u2019s processor and a tenth of a phone\u2019s, a Samsung VP said at the event. But we still have a ways to go before we approach the minimal power requirements of the human brain, he said, which can process some tasks at 100 million times less power than a computer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/14\/samsung-ibm-truenorth-chip-advanced-sensor\/\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/14\/samsung-ibm-truenorth-chip-advanced-sensor\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM\u2019s TrueNorth, a so-called \u201ccognitive chip,\u201d remarkably resembles the human brain: its 4,096 cores combine to create about a million digital neurons and 256 million synapse connections. In short, like everyone\u2019s favorite complex organ, it operates extremely quickly and consumes far less energy than typical processors. Samsung has taken the chip and plugged it into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1512,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60792,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions\/60792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}