The new IBM super BRAIN computing chip

IBM has always been an innovative company, creating revolutions in the computing industry, with one of he first personal computer, the ThinkPad, and Watson, the world's first supercomputer. But three years ago, IBM had revealed their prototype for a human brain-inspired computer chip, SyNAPSE (Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics). 

The original prototype had only a single core, but now the chip has improved significantly and has over 1 million neurons, 256 million synapses, and 4096 neurosynaptic cores, only the chip needs only 70 mW of power to actually function. This is a significant achievement for IBM, and this achievement has reached the cover of the journal Science. Additionally, IBM's Chief Scientist Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha says that the amount of power required for this chip to work is equivalent to the the battery required for a hearing aid to function! 

For more information, check out engadget's article:

Engadget- http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/07/ibm-synapse-supercomputing-chip-mimics-human-brain/