ARM says its SpiNNaker chip simulates 1,000 brain neurons

Steve Furber, who was the main designer of the 32-bit ARM RISC processor in the 1980s and is now the ICL professor at the University of Manchester in the UK, believes an ARM core can substitute 1,000 spiking neurons in the human brain, The Register reported recently. This is done as part of Furber's SpiNNaker project (PDF), which is being performed in conjunction with Andrew Brown of the University of Southampton. As part of the project, the two are trying to build a supercomputer cluster with one million processors to simulate the activities of nearly one billion ne...



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