The new optical storage IBM claims to be up to 50 times faster than SSD

Optical storage IBM

Within this relentless quest to find the next big breakthrough in storage, there have been important projects that seek precisely to have a new method for storing data that is fast, affordable, efficient, high-capacity, out of which emerged developments such as the quartz discs, the synthetic DNA of Microsoft, and memory 3D Xpoint Intel.

Today it has announced a major new development that would put us to a new way of encoding data in memory phase change, also known as PRAM or simply PCM, allowing us to have a type of non – volatile memory cycles life live longer and also much faster than Flash memory.

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The artificial brain is getting closer: IBM created the first artificial neurons phase change

The artificial brain

Although we have long been talking about computers as artificial brains, actually it has always been a metaphor. Although less and less. IBM has managed to implement a system of 500 artificial neurons with phase change technology they want to simulate the performance of organic brains. In a way that never before had gotten.

For years, scientists have tried to imitate the versatile computing capabilities of neurons. Today, it seems that is the only way to take a step beyond artificial intelligence projects that are underway and that promise to change the world.

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