The FACETS group now plans to further scale up their chips, connecting a number of wafers to create a superchip with a total of a billion neurons and 10¹³ synapses.
I just thought that they were going to have some serious problems with yield at that kind of scale, but then it struck me that that's kind of the beauty of it: it doesn't really matter if a couple of neurons don't work - if it's anything at all like a brain, it'll be remarkably failure-tolerant.
(based on my admittedly limited knowledge of brains, simulated brains and semiconductor engineering)
I just thought that they were going to have some serious problems with yield at that kind of scale, but then it struck me that that's kind of the beauty of it: it doesn't really matter if a couple of neurons don't work - if it's anything at all like a brain, it'll be remarkably failure-tolerant.
(based on my admittedly limited knowledge of brains, simulated brains and semiconductor engineering)