Chips Will Match Human Brain in 20 Years
Made out of sands and chemicals, semiconductor chips will be able to match the human brain in about 20 years when the capacity is enlarged to 100 terabytes, or 3,000 times the current size, said Hwang Chang-gyu, chief executive of Samsung Electronics semiconductor unit.
``What is the ultimate goal of semiconductor and electronics engineers? It is to develop a chip that is a copy of the human brain,’’ Hwang said during his keynote speech of the Korea Electronics Show 2006, yesterday. ``Computer chips already match the processing speed of human brains and they only need to have a larger capacity.
``The problem is how to get memory chips to follow the logic of the human brain’s 6 billion neuron cells. That will require 100 terabytes of memory,’’ he continued. ``I think at some moment past 2020, chips will be able to correspond to human brains.’’
