---
title: "China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading"
description: "## Just Think"
date: "2019-06-03"
modified: "2019-06-03"
authors:
  - name: "Kristin Houser"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kristin"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/brain-computer-interfaces-brain-talker"
categories:
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Prosthetics and Devices"
tags:
  - "brain computer interface"
  - "china"
  - "computer chip"
  - "the digest"
---

# China Unveils First Chip Designed Specifically for Mind-Reading

!["Brain Talker," a computer chip designed specifically for use in brain-computer interfaces, could help the devices finally reach the mainstream.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/brain-computer-interfaces-brain-talker.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Shutterstock/Victor Tangermann\</em\>*

## Just Think

As the name suggests, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are devices that provide a direct line of communication between the brain and a computer.

Essentially, they pull off the seemingly sci-fi feat of reading minds, and research into them has made remarkable strides in recent years — we now have BCIs that can [turn your thoughts into audible sentences](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/device-thoughts-audible-sentences>) or even let you play a game of [telepathic Tetris](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/machine-play-tetris-virtual-telepathy>).

Still, the tech has yet to reach anything close to mainstream adoption — but a newly unveiled Chinese [computer chip](<http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/18/c_138069590.htm>) might finally bring it to the masses, [according to](<http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/18/c_138069590.htm>) state-run press agency *Xinhua*.

## Deliberate Design

A collaboration between Tianjin University and the state-owned China Electronics Corporation led to the recent [unveiling of "Brain Talker,"](<http://www.tju.edu.cn/english/info/1010/4245.htm>) a computer chip designed specifically for use in BCIs.

"The signals transmitted and processed by the brain are submerged in the background noise," Tianjin University researcher Ming Dong said in a [press release](<http://www.tju.edu.cn/english/info/1010/4245.htm>). "This BC3 \[Brain-Computer Codec Chip\] has the ability to discriminate minor neural electrical signals and decode their information efficiently, which can greatly enhance the speed and accuracy of brain-computer interfaces."

Ming believes the chip could help bring BCIs out of labs and into the mainstream.

“Brain-Computer Interfaces hold a promising future," he said in the release. "The Brain Talker chip advances BCI technology allowing it to become more portable, wearable, and accessible to the general public."

**READ MORE:** [China unveils Brain-Computer Interface chip](<http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/18/c_138069590.htm>) \[*Xinhua*\]

**More on BCIs:** *[Amazing Device Turns Thoughts Into Audible Sentences](<https://futurism.com/neoscope/device-thoughts-audible-sentences>)*

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristinjhouser>)