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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen

TT 48: Focus Session: Exploiting Spintronics for Unconventional Computing (joint session MA/TT)

TT 48.6: Invited Talk

Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 11:45–12:15, H 1012

Bits and Brains: New materials and brain-inspired concepts for low energy information processing — •Theo Rasing — Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Data is the fuel of the new digital economy that has stimulated a whole new class of innovative technologies and businesses. While data has become an indispensable part of modern society, the rate at which data is generated is exploding. This is not only pushing our current technologies to their limits, but also that of our energy production: our ICT and data centers already consume around 5% of the world electricity production and with an annual increase of 7%, this is rapidly becoming unsustainable. In stark contrast, the human brain, with its intricate architecture combining both processing and storing of information, only consumes about 10 Watt of energy while having a similar capacity as a supercomputer consuming around 10 Megawatt. We have created a consortium of condensed matter, material and neuro scientists with the aim to develop materials and concepts that mimic the efficiency of the brain by combining local processing and storage, using adaptable physical interactions that can implement learning algorithms.