Intel Teaches Microchips How To... Smell?
Chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) may be losing market share to its top CPU rival Advanced Micro Devices, but it's just assured itself commanding control of the digital nose market. The company's Loihi neuromorphic chip has just proven itself capable "smelling" certain chemicals present in the air.
The technology is far more practical than it may seem on the surface. When 64 of these chips are combined to make a complete system currently dubbed Pohoiki Beach, the result is a tool capable of detecting a variety of chemicals that could indicate the presence of weapons, drugs, and even certain diseases.
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