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IBM Rat Brain, PCIe SSD, and your questions!

IBM's "Digital Rat Brain"

Last year, IBM announced the creation of a chip that more closely resembled an organic brain than a traditional silicon IC. Rather than storing data in memory cells, the new chip worked more like neurons in the brain.

The reason we do this is because while digital computers are GREAT at processing calculations (logic), they're NOT good at finding paterns in that data.

So... IBM just made a major advancement! They created a system that contains 48 million "digital neurons". That's roughly the same number as is found in the brain of a mouse.

By combining their "digital neuron" computers with traditional "logic computers" they've created a "left brain" and a "right brain". The left brain is logical. The right brain finds patterns.

Not only that, but this new architecture can be more powerful while using less power. While the old chips are always processing instructions and usually on, the new IBM chips can work on "spikes" in activity, saving power while increasing it's maximum processing capacity. This could give us super-powered phones that last for DAYS.

It's a brave new world... but don't get too excited... 48 million neurons sounds like a lot. By comparison, the human brain had about 100 billion neurons and 100-1000 trillion synapses.

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