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"The amount of data humans process and send around the globe on a daily basis is astonishing. However, the energy cost involved is high, and there is a strong need for designing energy-efficient devices. Modha et al. describe a chip with a neural inspired architecture, called NorthPole, that achieves substantially higher performance, energy efficiency, and area efficiency compared with other comparable architectures (see the Perspective by Iyer and Roychowdhury). A key feature of this chip is the recognition that for almost all kinds of computing, access to memory plays as important a role as logic processing. Unlike analog in-memory computing, this purely digital system has the option of tailoring the bit precision as needed, which allows for optimization of the power usage". Full Article @ Science.

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