What is IBM TrueNorth?
What is IBM TrueNorth? TrueNorth was a neuromorphic CMOS integrated circuit produced by IBM in 2014. It is a manycore processor network on a chip design, with 4096 cores, each one having 256 programmable simulated neurons for a total of just over a million neurons. How IBM got Brainlike efficiency from the TrueNorth chip? IBM also saved on power through the design of an on-chip network that interconnects all the chip's neurosynaptic cores instead of using extra power to communicate with off-chip memory. One brainlike feature that IBM did not mimic to reduce power consumption was to make TrueNorth's neurons...