Smartphone will be as smart as a mouse

A year ago, IBM introduced the TrueNorth chip - inspired by the human brain. IBM today announced that it has succeeded in bringing TrueNorth's scale to the brain level of a mouse or, in other words, a future computer or phone capable of thinking like a tiny animal. This.

IBM will make the future of the processor as powerful as the brain of the mouse.

Specifically, IBM has connected 48 TrueNorth chips together to form an "artificial brain" containing 48 million neurons (each TrueNorth chip corresponds to one million neurons). IBM has tested the platform using high-end algorithms such as Facebook's face recognition system or Google Translate.

IBM said it was capable of putting all of its power into handheld devices such as smartphones, and TrueNorth also impressed with its super-low power consumption: just 70 mW is enough for 5.4 billion transistors to operate. Meanwhile, current processors consume between 35 and 140 watts, though only 1.4 billion transistors. Even though TrueNorth is not based on traditional architectures, IBM can build a new programming language for the future.

TrueNorth is a product of the collaboration between IBM and the Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA), which involved more than 200 people from DARPA, eight IBM labs and five different universities.