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The press release seems to have more information. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/35251.wss

"One core contains 262,144 programmable synapses and the other contains 65,536 learning synapses."

I'm more curious how one would actually program such a chip, and considering the amount of memory required to parse through a learning dataset, how they interface between external and internal memory. I can't believe it would be a matter of compilers, or what would be the use of the new architecture, especially as they claim it as a departure from the Von Neumann paradigm.



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