A chip that can rewire itself

IBM has created a microprocessor that can 'rewire' connections "as it encounters new information, similar to the way biological synapses work."

The microprocessor does not resolder connections but rather dials up and dials down the connections. "The SyNAPSE system uses two prototype "neurosynaptic computing chips". Both have 256 computational cores, which the scientists described as the electronic equivalent of neurons.

One chip has 262,144 programmable synapses, while the other contains 65,536 learning synapses."

Details a bit scant but more from the beeb http://bbc.in/pm9jsC