[TriEmbed] ARM computer quantity discount

[John Vaughters]

Interesting article. 

Regarding this quote from the article:

"One of the first fundamental differences between the brain and computers is how their “smallest units” function. Brain neurons can have multiple connections and react to impulses in a range of different ways. Computer transistors, by comparison, are switches that, while can be connected to other transistors, can only have one of two states."


This is the problem. Trying to simulate biologic structure with silicon. Highly inefficient and structurally different. Biology is just better than what we can create at this time. I'm not convinced electronics will ever be able to simulate a brain, but it is a very interesting approach and we can certainly learn from it. Not a new idea, but very cool to see this scale.

John Vaughters



On Friday, November 9, 2018, 6:25:36 PM EST, Pete Soper via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote: 







U of Manchester probably got a price break for this new machine they've made:

    SpiNNaker Million-Core Supercomputer

-Pete



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