Detail map of San Jose, California, United States Overview map of San Jose, California, United States

A: San Jose, California, United States

The First Neurosynaptic Chips

8/2011
Image Source: www.research.ibm.com

In August 2011, as part of the SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics) project, IBM researchers led by Dharmendra S. Modha, manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing Group at IBM Almaden Research Center, demonstrated two neurosynaptic cores that moved beyond von Neumann architecture and programming to ultra-low, super-dense brain-inspired cognitive computing chips. These new silicon, neurosynaptic chips would be the building blocks for computing systems that emulate the brain's computing efficiency, size and power usage.

Timeline Themes

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Neural Networks
Computer & Calculator Design / Architecture
Computers & the Human Brain / Neuromorphic Computing

Related Entries

von Neumann architecture:

Key Developments Concerning the ENIAC Patent, the Patent on the General Purpose Electronic Digital Computer
Von Neumann Privately Circulates the First Theoretical Description of a Stored-Program Computer: the von Neumann Architecture
Turing's Main Hardware Design After World War II, the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)
Key Developments in von Neumann's IAS Electronic Computer Project
The First Significant Computer Music Composition
IBM and Cornell University Announce the First Production-Scale Neuromorphic Computing Chip
Danny Hillis, Richard Feynman, Tamiko Thiel & Colleagues Design the Connection Machine, the First Commercial Supercomputer Designed for AI Problems