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The business of building brains

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Neuromorphic engineering attempts to create brain-like computing hardware and has helped reawaken interest in computer chip start-ups. But is the technology ready for mainstream application?

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Fig. 1: Neural networks in biology and computing.
Fig. 2: A decade of start-ups.

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  1. Sunny Bains is the author of Explaining the Future: How to Research, Analyze and Report on Emerging Technologies and is a Principal Teaching Fellow at University College London.

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