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Qualcomm to Build Neuro-Inspired Chips -- World’s largest smartphone chipmaker offers to custom-build very efficient neuro-inspired chips for phones, robots, and vision systems. ' The world’s largest smartphone chipmaker, Qualcomm, says it is ready to start helping partners manufacture a radically different kind of a chip—one that mimics the neural structures and processing methods found in the brain.The approach is emerging as a way to enable machines to perform complex tasks while consuming far less power. IBM has been prototyping similar chips (see “ IBM Scientists Show Blueprints for Brainlike Computing),” and the area is the focus of intense research around the world (see “ Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip” and “ Intel Reveals Neuromorphic Chip Design”). ~~~ For several years Qualcomm and Brain Corp, a separate company it has invested in, have been working on hardware and algorithms that attempt to mimic the processes of the human brain. The company calls the overall program Zeroth, borrowing from the science fiction author Isaac Asimov’s “Zeroth Law of Robotics” (which specifies that robots must not harm humanity). The company has built prototypes of a neuro-inspired chip for a rolling robot in Qualcomm’s labs in San Diego. Simply telling the robot when it has arrived in the right spot allows it to figure out how to get there later without any complex set of commands, Grob said (see video). “This ‘neuromorphic’ hardware is biologically inspired—a completely different architecture—and can solve a very different class of problems that conventional architecture is not good at,” Grob said in an interview after his talk. “It really uses physical structures derived from real neurons—parallel and distributed.” He added, “What is new now is the ability to drop down large numbers of these structures on silicon. The tools we can create are very sophisticated. The promise of this is a kind of machine that can learn, and be programmed without software—be programmed the way you teach your kid.” ' technologyreview.com Jim

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