IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip

Phones and other compact devices with silicon neurons and synapses inside could be much more useful.

In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see “IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does”). Now the company has begun work on a next generation aimed at making mobile devices better at tasks that are easy for brains but tough for computers, such as speech recognition and interpreting images.


IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip