3. Really?
I had imagined that the power consumption would be negligible and given (2) the main benefit sounds as if it should be many orders of magnitude better in terms of access time and perhaps bandwidth as well (if that is a priority).
If low power is extremely critical that might explain it but why would it be for a prototype that, I guess, will only be used in labs anyway?
Or am I completely off base?
Ok, missed it at first (from the article): "Their Watson supercomputer, for example, which was victoriuous over human competitors on the American quiz show Jeopardy! (see [...]), currently requires a room full of power-hungry processors. Manohar hopes that low-power cognitive chips could do the job just as well."
Of course "low-power" is a bit vague (especially when comparing to a supercomputer).
If low power is extremely critical that might explain it but why would it be for a prototype that, I guess, will only be used in labs anyway?
Or am I completely off base?
Ok, missed it at first (from the article): "Their Watson supercomputer, for example, which was victoriuous over human competitors on the American quiz show Jeopardy! (see [...]), currently requires a room full of power-hungry processors. Manohar hopes that low-power cognitive chips could do the job just as well."
Of course "low-power" is a bit vague (especially when comparing to a supercomputer).