{"id":92862,"date":"2019-06-29T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T00:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/neuromorphic-hardware-trying-to-put-brain-into-chips"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T00:22:27","slug":"neuromorphic-hardware-trying-to-put-brain-into-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/neuromorphic-hardware-trying-to-put-brain-into-chips","title":{"rendered":"Neuromorphic Hardware: Trying to Put Brain Into Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuromorphic-hardware-trying-to-put-brain-into-chips3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi all.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Up until now, chip-makers have been piggybacking on the renowned Moore\u2019s Law for delivering successive generations of chips that have more compute capabilities and are less power hungry. Now, these advancements are slowly coming to a halt. Researchers around the world are proposing alternative architectures to continue producing systems which are faster and more energy efficient. This article discusses those alternatives and reasons why one of them might have an edge over others in averting the chip design industry from getting stymied.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s law, or to put it differently \u2014 savior of chip-makers worldwide \u2014 was coined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.com\/pressroom\/kits\/events\/moores_law_40th\/index.htm\" class=\"\">Dr. Gordon Moore<\/a>, the founder of Intel Corp, in 1965. <strong class=\"\">The law states that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 2 years<\/strong>. But why the savior of chip-makers? This law was so powerful during the semiconductor boom that \u201c<em class=\"\">people would auto-buy the next latest and greatest computer chip, with full confidence that it would be better than what they\u2019ve got<\/em>\u201d, said former Intel engineer Robert P. Colwell. Back in the day writing a program with bad performance was not an issue as the programmer knew that Moore\u2019s law would ultimately save him.<\/p>\n<p>Problem that we are facing today is, <strong class=\"\">the law is nearly dead<\/strong>! Or to avert from offending Moore fans \u2014 as Henry Samueli, chief technology officer for Broadcom says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all. Up until now, chip-makers have been piggybacking on the renowned Moore\u2019s Law for delivering successive generations of chips that have more compute capabilities and are less power hungry. Now, these advancements are slowly coming to a halt. Researchers around the world are proposing alternative architectures to continue producing systems which are faster and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92862","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}