Giant Giant South Korea Samsung has announced that he plans to start working on the manufacture of neuromorphic chips that can imitate the human brain.
Engineers and scholars from Samsung and Harvard University will work on the project and have published a perspective paper, titled ‘Neuromorphic Electronics based on copying and attaching the brain’, naturally electronics.
The appropriate joint writer is Denhee Ham, a fellow Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Sait) and Professor Harvard University, Professor Hongkun Park from Harvard University, Sungwoo Hwang, Samsung SDS President and CEO and former Saitam Head, and Kinam Kim, Deputy Chair and CEO Samsung Electronics.
The authors, with their own words, want to ‘copy’ the neuronal connection map of the brain and then ‘attach to’ to the “three-dimensional high density network of solid-state memories”, which will become a non-volatile network of memories such as commercial flash memories which is found in a solid-state drive (SSD), or ‘new’ memory such as resistive random access memory (RRAM) – by programming each memory “so the conductance represents the power of each neuronal connection in copying maps.” The team plans to carry out the ‘brain copying’ process using an array of nanoelectrode developed by Dr.
Ham and Dr.
Park.
With this effort, the team wants to create a memory chip that is “approaching unique computational properties of the brain – low power, religious learning, environmental adaptation, and even autonomy and cognition – which has exceeded the current technology reach.” Samsung said that with the human brain which is expected to approach 100 billion or more neurons and one thousand or more synaptic connections, the final neuromorphic chip will require 100 trillion or more memories and to integrate all these memories can be made possible by 3D.
Integration of memory.
In accordance with Ham, “Working towards Heroic goals will push the boundaries of machine intelligence, neurosciences, and semiconductor technology.”