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Melding computing power with memory

How does it manage to achieve such results?

NorthPole also comprises 22 billion transistors, and its cores can perform 2,048 operators per core.

The IBM NorthPole chip

Architecturally, NorthPole blurs the boundary between compute and memory, said IBM Researchs Dharmendra Modha.

AMDhas also tapped into the concept of combining memory and compute on a single component.

It was also tested on natural language processing and speech recognition.

NorthPole is also suited to edge applications that require massive amounts of data processing in real-time.

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