Lighting up the future of brain-inspired computing

Nowadays we are experiencing a boom in Artificial Intelligence (AI).Being a buzzword with science fiction references until recently, AI in the last couple of years tends to become a commodity.Even the least tech-savvy around us have used some sort of AI software, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini or Microsoft's Copilot.This progress has been facilitated by machine learning algorithms combined with advanced hardware architectures.One hundred years after the first patent on field effect transistor (FET) was filed, we now use tens of billions of transistors in the latest CPUs (central processing units) or even hundreds of billions of transistors in GPUs (graphic processing units) and recent neuromorphic systems, such as Intel's Hala Point 1 and IBM's North Pole 2 .