Using nano-scale spintronics, researchers aim to build novel artificial brain

IMAGE: The researchers will build new AI hardware technology using novel nano-scale spintronics that can radically change the way in which computers work. New research project to develop AI hardware; a completely new kind of computer system that mimics how the human brain is built up. Out with CPUs and memory storage, and in with artificial neural networks that can increase computer performance by up to 100,000 times compared to modern supercomputers. Researchers from Aarhus University have just received DKK 33 million (EUR 4.4 million) from the prestigious EU framework programme Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) for a project that may have far-reaching consequences for the computer technology of the future. The aim is to develop a neuromorphic computer system (NCS) as a novel AI hardware that can set a framework for AI software in a physical system built like a human brain.