The latest chip boasts more than 5 billion transistors, putting it in supercomputer-on-a-chip territory, but that's not the impressive part — those transistors are organized into 4,096 "neurosynaptic cores," on which are more than a million simulated "neurons" and 256 million "synapses." IBM's chip, you see, is an attempt to replicate the brain's style of processing information.
Brain-Inspired IBM Chip Puts Traditional Computers To Shame - NBC News
Brain-Inspired IBM Chip Puts Traditional Computers To Shame - NBC News