# Speck **Entity class:** Concept or analytic term **Type:** Neuromorphic vision processor **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] **Primary source:** [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] ## Definition Speck is SynSense's event-driven neuromorphic vision processor family. ## Relationships [[wiki/Speck|Speck]] is related to [[wiki/SynSense|SynSense]], event-based sensing, and [[wiki/Neuromorphic Computing|neuromorphic computing]]. <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> This entry's documented connections are expressed in its definition and related-work routes, with provenance retained in the source-linked material. <!-- END HUMANIZED RELATIONSHIPS 2026-09-11 --> ## Source route [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] ## Related Work in the Corpus <!-- BEGIN HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 --> - In [[articles/2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces|2026 Annual Report on Brain-Computer Interfaces]], **Neuromorphic Hardware: Collapsing the Cloud Dependency Objection** provides the narrative context for **Speck**: IBM's NorthPole, scaled to a 288-card system by November 2025, achieves 115 peta-ops for LLM inference at 4-bit precision with 3.7 PB/s bandwidth consuming ~30kW—demonstrating cognitive-task-optimized architectures can approach… <!-- END HUMANIZED CORPUS ROUTES 2026-09-11 -->