Georg Böcherer, principal engineer at Huawei Technologies, believes using neuromorphic computing to lower the power consumption of DSP ASICS (digital signal processing application-specific integrated circuits) in optical transceivers will have a huge impact.

Neuromorphic computing, inspired by the structures and functions of the human brain, “will allow the development of competitive DSP ASICS using more mature CMOS nodes, dramatically lowering the R&D and manufacturing costs,” Böcherer says of his current work.