| Innatera, a spin-off of Delft University in the Netherlands, is developing a new breed of microprocessors that aim to bring brain-like intelligence to sensors. Adding intelligence at the edge is expected to enable a whole range of applications in the IoT, automotive, healthcare and other industries and potentially help usher in an age of privacy-preserving personalized AI on mobile devices. The Dutch scale-up specializes in neuromorphic computing, a technology that aims to mimic how the human brain works, slashing the memory and power requirements of AI by orders of magnitude. The technology is gaining traction as the limitations and energy demands of traditional AI architectures become increasingly apparent. Rather than performing sequential operations on data stored in memory, neuromorphic chips use networks of artificial neurons that communicate through spikes, much like real neurons. Innatera, another neuromorphic chip company called Gemesys, and Seth Bannon, a Silicon Valley investor at the venture capital firm Fifty Years, talked about this trend during a panel moderated by The Innovator’s Editor-in-Chief at the Hello Tomorrow conference in Paris on March 13. | 
