{"id":93743,"date":"2019-07-16T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/intels-neuromorphic-system-surfs-next-wave-in-brain-inspired-research"},"modified":"2019-07-16T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:42:24","slug":"intels-neuromorphic-system-surfs-next-wave-in-brain-inspired-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/intels-neuromorphic-system-surfs-next-wave-in-brain-inspired-research","title":{"rendered":"Intel\u2019s neuromorphic system surfs next wave in brain-inspired research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intels-neuromorphic-system-surfs-next-wave-in-brain-inspired-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A neuromorphic computer that can simulate 8 million neurons is in the news. The term \u201cneuromorphic\u201d suggests a design that can mimic the human brain. And neuromorphic computing? It is described as using very large scale integration systems with electric analog circuits imitating neuro-biological <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neuromorphic_engineering\">architectures<\/a> in our system.<\/p>\n<p>This is where Intel steps in, and significantly so. The Loihi chip applies the principles found in biological brains to computer architectures. The payoff for users is that they can process information up to 1,000 times faster and 10,000 times more efficiently than CPUs for specialized applications, e.g., sparse coding, graph search and constraint-satisfaction problems.<\/p>\n<p>Its news release on Monday read \u201cIntel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news\/intels-pohoiki-beach-64-chip-neuromorphic-system-delivers-breakthrough-results-research-tests\/#gs.pw5a32\">Pohoiki<\/a> Beach, a 64-Chip Neuromorphic System, Delivers Breakthrough Results in Research Tests.\u201d Pohoiki Beach is Intel\u2019s latest neuromorphic system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neuromorphic computer that can simulate 8 million neurons is in the news. The term \u201cneuromorphic\u201d suggests a design that can mimic the human brain. And neuromorphic computing? It is described as using very large scale integration systems with electric analog circuits imitating neuro-biological architectures in our system. This is where Intel steps in, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93743","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=93743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}