MIT develops a new chip to make neural networks for power efficient

Researchers at MIT have developed a new hardware chip that can make neural networks in smart devices more power efficient. Usually, neural networks require much energy as they are computing a large of data at once, so while there are neural features on devices such as smartphones, they are integrated on a smaller scale. The data is usually is sent to the web instead to process all the information and sent back to the device. However, these chips compute information three to seven times faster than currently dedicated chips. Not only that, they reportedly consume 94 to 95 percent less power, making them an idea inclusion on smaller handheld devices in the future.