IBM researchers created a prototype of cognitive processing. Its architecture is fundamentally different from the traditional method of information processing and is not based on the principle of if-then, but on learning, changing reactions and finding optimal solutions, depending on the task .
IBM long enough worked on the study of brain principles and translating them in computing devices..
Cognitive function are similar to processors. Only their internal structure has little to do with POWER7 chips. Grown silicon crystals containing blocks that are built-in memory (artificial synapses), information processors (artificial neurons) and conductors (artificial axons). Working prototype of the cognitive processor has two 45-nm core, made on SOI-CMOS standard. One core contains 262 144 of programmable synapse, the other - 65 536 learners synapses. Now tests are conducted in problems for images recognition, associative memory and classification.
Development actively invested by the department of new technologies U.S. Defense (DARPA). It also planned project SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics), which aims to create educational computer system capable of comprehensively analyze the information coming simultaneously from multiple sensors and sensors, as well as change their settings and options, depending on the incoming data.