Reconfigurable Nonlinear Processing Unit combined with new IBM chip, for speech recognition without heavy software/ energy-hungry processors

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-09-material-chip-based-approach-enables.html

"University of Twente, IBM Research Europe, Toyota Motor Europe... processes sound smoothly/ dynamically as good or better than best software models... chips based on standard silicon, work at room temperature... combines a convolutional neural network with IBM chip for in materia speech recognition, hearing aids using almost no energy, voice assistants not sending data to cloud, cars with direct speech control, accelerated AI, time-dependent signals: video, images, continuous data streams from sensors"