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Re:'Human brain' supercomputer with 1M processors switched o... by EamonnMR on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:12AM (#18382851)
Maybe they are fundamentally misunderstanding what a transistor is? That number still seems low. Maybe electrons are the moving parts? (then that number would be very low.)
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Re:'Human brain' supercomputer with 1M processors switched o... by tempay on Monday November 05, 2018 @10:18AM (#18382902)
It looks like they're fairly minimal cores and the power consumption of the entire machine is (relatively) low.

http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/projects/SpiNNaker/hardware/

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