Neuromorphic computing is an emerging technology that has actually been emerging for quite some time. It was first proposed in the 1980s by Carver Mead to take advantage of some of the technologies emerging in very large-scale integration (VLSI). The idea was to put a large array of analog circuits on a single chip where all of the individual analog blocks were designed to leverage our knowledge of:
- Biologically based neural architectures in living nervous systems.
- New machine learning algorithms.
- Physical microelectronics.
One of the driving forces in this computing domain is because the end is in sight for the dramatic exponential growth of single processor von Neuman computer architectures. (Of course, it is the driving force for parallelism, quantum computing, etc. Who doesn't stay up nights worrying about the day when we can't compute any faster?!)
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