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 ...

Interesting. I wager the precision will need to be increased a bit to really be useful outside of highly specialized workloads. 32-bit precision is not enough for many tasks, so an approximate 8-bits ...

When you’re programming an artificial intelligence application, you’re usually building statistical models that output discrete values. Is that image a human face? Whose face is it? Is that face ...

Rather than using the Boolean logic of traditional chips, it uses probabilistic logic that is less sensitive to the increased electrical noise generated within chips as they get smaller. The solution ...

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 ...

Among many proposed new device concepts and architectural designs, there is increasing interest in a fundamentally different form of brain-like logic based on probabilistic inference that is far more ...

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 ...