What is "truenorth"

Truenorth is an Icelandic film and TV production service company. It was founded in 2003 has line produced feature films for studios such as Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, DreamWorks, Columbia (Sony) and Marvel Studios. The company has offered production service in Iceland for Batman Begins, Flags of Our Fathers, Die Another Day, Tomb Raider, Prometheus, Oblivion, Noah, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and Thor: The Dark World.

TrueNorth is a neuromorphic CMOS chip produced by IBM. It is a manycore network on a chip design, with 4096 cores in the current chip, each one simulating 256 programmable silicon " neurons" for a total of just over a million neurons. In turn, each neuron has 256 programmable " synapses" which convey the signals between them. Hence, the total number of programmable synapses is just over 268 million (2^28). In terms of basic building blocks, its transistor count is 5.4 billion. Since memory, computation, and communication are handled in each of the 4096 neurosynaptic cores, TrueNorth circumvents the von-Neumann-architecture bottlenecks and is very energy-efficient, consuming 70 milliwatts, about 1/10,000th the power density of conventional microprocessors. The SyNAPSE chip (introduced mid 2014) operates at lower temperatures and less power because it operates only when it needs, rather than all the time.1