On July 4th, news emerged that a collaborative team, led by Professor Yang Yuchao from Peking University’s School of Integrated Circuits and Researcher Song Zhitang from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, had successfully developed the world’s inaugural neurodynamics system chip utilizing phase-change memristors. This innovative chip significantly cuts down the single-step time delay for intricate computations to a mere 2.12 milliseconds, marking a speed enhancement of 50 to 478 times compared to current state-of-the-art graphics processing units (GPUs) in tasks such as cortical reconstruction. This achievement represents a major breakthrough, overcoming a half-century-long obstacle in real-time neurodynamics computing. The groundbreaking research findings were published in the esteemed journal Science in the early hours of July 3rd.
