Neurom Neuromorphic orphic system systems @ s @ Me MeRck Innovation Innovation Center Center Hannah Bürckstümmer 04 th March 2020
Innovation beyond Complementing Driving cross business sector R&D and & beyond Life sector innovation Science Healthcare Innovation between to generate new business for Merck In the Merck Innovation Center we identify innovative approaches at an early stage and Performance scale them to viable new businesses. Ideas are Materials grown into innovation projects based on assets of Merck. 2 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
Foster internal ideation, project inception and progress help ideas grow - Connect Innovation Internal open external ideas Think Tanks campaign and scale up to Merck to viable Innospire External Innovation new business. ideation Projects Set Beyond current boundaries. Innovation Innovator Fields Academy strategic direction Strengthen innovator skills & innovation culture 3
strategic direction Innovation fields provide Liquid Biopsy Clean Meat Technologies 4 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
exploring And we are always nascent areas in science, technology or business to analyze their potential for Merck Bioelectronics Neuromorphic Systems 5 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
Neuromorphic systems are aiming at emulating the working principles of the human brain. 6 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
Why?
HUMAN BRAIN VS. WORLD- CLASS SUPER- COMPUTER Watt Watt 8 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
220 GOOGLE SEARCHES BOILING 1L OF WATER 9 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS Global energy use TECHNOLOGY > 20 % > 10 % today 2030 10 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
Data explosion at the edge Moving from the cloud to the edge Why do we need Edge AI? 30bn IoT devices Airbus A-350 jet has over fueling the edge 6,000 sensors and generates 2.5 terabytes 2020 of data each day it flies Globally security cameras create about 2.5 exabytes of data per day If everybody used their Android Voice Assistant for 3 min per day they would have to double Google the number of data centers they owned. Source: Deloitte, TMT Predictions 2020 ; Pete Warden, Google Source: Maurizio Capra, Future Internet 2019, 11, 100 11 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
The edge computing opportunity Data processing at the point of origin Major pain points Advanced AI and Edge computing Autonomous driving Decentralized processing power at the Data volume vs latency • source of data generation needs orders of Size and power supply • magnitude higher computing efficiency IoT Sensors Reliability • Bandwidth • Battery power • Smartphone Battery • Privacy • 12 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
How?
Why mimicking the brain could make chips more efficient Digital-Analog Hybrid Computing • Binary: Spike as units of information • Analog: electric charge is accumulated like in capacitors • The brain is a mixed-signal system • Local analog computing • binary-spike communication. Neuron information processing 1. Electric potential of –70 mV at static state In-memory computing • 2. Changes, when signal is received from synapse Asynchronous logic • 3. Spikes are formed above a critical threshold Connectivity and self-learning 4. Spike propagates along the neuron’s axon to a • synapse Parallelism • 5. If the spike meets certain criteria, the synapse transmits it to the branching dendrite of another neuron. 14 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
Simplified technology roadmap Key enablers Chip New Software Memory & Heat architecture materials wall, Moore‘s law Current Limited power efficiency Memory Logic Data transfer systems √ X X Restricting edge applications Higher computing power: >2020 Memory Logic √ √ X systems Near-memory processing High computing power & >2022 low power consumption √ √ √ systems via analogue in-memory processing Memristive element = 15 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020 memory + resistor
Neuromorphic technologies are just at the beginning! The second rise of AI yields the revolution in the hardware 16 Neuromorphic Systems | High Tech Women | March 2020
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