Where Cognitive Computing Meets Chip Design - DATAVERSITY

She continues, "He noted that the biggest benefit will be on the energy-efficiency side. This is a key aspect to making cognitive systems of the future a reality because all of the extremely sophisticated processing requires energy. Because many of these systems may be untethered, that energy will have to be carefully meted out. In addition to processing efficiency, the software must be efficient. 'There are lots of things we can think of that would change the way software gets constructed and where the time and energy is spent in your average computer system,' Rowen said. 'Just think about what we have done with the last 50 years of computing. It's not as if we take the old applications and run them eight orders of magnitude faster. What we do is come up with new kinds of applications, which are really new levels of abstraction.'"