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 ===Speculation about brain components===
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+Improvements in silicon chips are reaching their limits. With all the promising research going on we can expect new standards in a foreseeable future.
+What can change? Materials, information carrier and architecture.
+The new standards will deliver more computing power, and with enough computing power, pretty much everything can be simulated.
+It's thought that brain simulations require [[wikipedia:Exascale_computing|exascale computing]].
+Right now it looks like [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-optalysys-prototype-optical-processor.html optical] and [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-tiny-chip-mimics-brain-supercomputer.html#ajTabs neurosynaptic] processors will hit the market before memristor- and spintronic-based processors do.
+If we assume a human neocortex with 1 million cortical columns each with 60.000 neurons, it would take 60.000 of IBM's new neurosynaptic processors to do the job.
+A SLD brain with components based on these technologies might be possible but would be still far to big in size. It might fill a little building and remote control its body. So that's generation 0.
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