[owyn]

If you follow the press release rabbit a few clicks, there's an article in Science describing the NorthPole chip architecture in more detail:

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adh1174

Also they've been working on this for 10+ years so it's not exactly new news.

[lawlessone]

>Also they've been working on this for 10+ years so it's not exactly new news.

Maybe they're hoping someone else does it.. and then pays IBM for using whatever patents they have on it.