Researchers at the Nitride Technology Centre (NTC) at TU Braunschweig, in collaboration with Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and ams OSRAM, are looking into the use of microLED devices in neuromorphic computing. The researchers say that the adoption of microLED devices may lead to highly efficiency AI computers.
The basic idea is to mimic the biological neural network by using photonic components. The researchers are combining GaN components with conventional silicon microelectronics to create highly integrated arrays with hundreds of thousands of micro-LED. Using microLEDs can enable a power reduction by a factor of 10,000 compared to current technologies.
This is still early research, but the researchers have already developed a macroscopic optical micro-LED demonstrator with 1,000 neurons, that has passed a standard AI pattern recognition test.
