A DARPA-funded processor start-up has made bold claims about a new kind of processor that computes using probabilities, rather than the traditional ones and zeroes of conventional processors. Lyric ...

Give your computer a break. Does it really have to give you the right answer every single time? Can't it be allowed to screw up once in a while? Rice University computer science professor Krishna ...

Krishna Palem is a heretic. In the world of microchips, precision and perfection have always been imperative. Every step of the fabrication process involves testing and retesting and is aimed at ...

Lyric Semiconductor thinks it is probably time to blend analog and digital technology into a new technology they call probability processing. Analog values called pbits that are processed by ...

To achieve the goal of experimentally demonstrating the p-bit, two critical material related issues have to be addressed. i) For the read unit to be able to provide an electrical signal to the next ...

The recent commercial AI revolution has been largely driven by deep neural networks. First invented in the 1960s, deep NNs came into their own once fueled by the combination of internet-scale datasets ...

Probably, we all agree that we should not see the world in black and white. One of our most important abilities as human beings, which separates us from machines, is the ability to see events as ...