It seems that Samsung won’t stop at smartphones only! The brand, along with IBM, has just developed TrueNorth – a brand new chipset that can function as the human’s brand! Let’s take a look!
TrueNorth – a breakthrough technology or a risk?
The human’s brand and the operational center of a computer are the two totally different entities! Human tends to be influenced by their natures and factors from their surroundings. On the other hand, computers solve problem by their own processors! The human’s brand is more efficient, because the energy that a human brand needs in order to complete tasks is 100 million times bigger than in computers.
That’s why scientists from big brands has been focusing on chipsets that resemble the structures of our brains. TrueNorth from Samsung and IBM is one of the best evidence! This chipset include a MASSIVE number of cores: 4096 cores. This capacity is as powerful as 1 million of neurons and 256 millions of artificial synapses! The way the information is transferred and stored in this chipset is the same as in the nervous system of human.
Last Thursday, Eric Ryu, the deputy chairman of the department of Research Development at Samsung High-tech Academy, has proved the ability of TrueNorth when applied in computers. This chipset can recognize the hand gesture just with one-tenth of common smartphone’s power. This technology has been already by Lawerence Livermore – National Research Center in information security for a while. America’s air-force also uses this tchnology in analysing uncommon cases and in automatic drones.
TrueNorth – What is it capable of?
With a breakthrough sensor, TrueNorth can identify images at the speed of 2000 frames per second – enough recreate 3D maps, auto-drive and resognize hand gestures in the most accurate way! According to a video posted on the Internet, this sensor is able to distinguish different hand movements precisely even from 3 meter away! This is undoubtedly a strong foundation for many future technologies.