New Brain-Inspired Chip Can Perform 46 BILLION Synaptic Operations Per Second

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Chip board. IBM

IBM researchers have been working on building a chip since 2008 that works like the neurons inside your brain. And they’ve just announced an exciting breakthrough. Scientists have developed a system that is made up of 48 million artificial nerve cells, which is about what you'd find in the brain of a small rodent.