"Dharmendra Modha, project leader for IBM Research, said the new chips have parts that behave like digital "neurons" and "synapses" that make them different than other chips. Each "core," or processing engine, has computing, communication and memory functions. "You have to throw out virtually everything we know about how these chips are designed," he said. "The key, key, key difference really is the memory and the processor are very closely brought together. There's a massive, massive amount of parallelism."
The project is part of the same research that led to IBM's announcement in 2009 that it had simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. Using progressively bigger supercomputers, IBM had previously simulated 40 percent of a mouse's brain in 2006, a rat's full brain in 2007, and 1 percent of a human's cerebral cortex in 2009. A computer with the power of the human brain is not yet near. But Modha said the latest development is an important step."
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This would make internet fax and phone services even better that before.
The technology with phone services like toll free numbers and video conferencing keeps growing.
Any technology to improve internet fax and phone services like 800 numbers is a plus.
Technology is making so many improvements in phone services like internet fax and toll free numbers.
Pretty soon phone services will be so sophisticated you won't even hear of internet fax.
Technology is amazing especially how far phone services have come with internet fax and video conferencing.
Internet phone services could really benefit from this chip. Maybe internet fax would could be faster.
Phone services would improve if the automated answering was more human like.
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