Electronic circuits are already more than ten million times faster than a neuron's electrochemical processes.

Judge as of January 2001. Compare the switching or operating speed of typical electronic circuits in 2001 (for example transistor or clock speeds) with the speed of a neuron's electrochemical processes (firing rates or synaptic reset times). True: authoritative figures give a ratio of at least 10^7. Mostly true: the ratio is somewhat below 10^7 but within a factor of about 2 (5×10^6 or more). Mostly false: the ratio is real but substantially smaller, roughly 10^5 to 5×10^6. False: the ratio is below about 10^5.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Neuron firing rates in humans AI Impacts · 14 April 2015

   “Thus our best guess is that neurons fire at 0.1-2Hz on average.”

2. E2 Neuron firing rates in humans AI Impacts · 14 April 2015

   “This implies than neurons are generally not capable of firing at more than 250-1000 Hz.”

3. E3 Intel Technology Journal Q1, 2001 Intel Corporation · 2001

   “It runs at frequencies of 1.30, 1.40 and 1.50GHz and incorporates new hyper-pipelined technology that doubles the pipeline depth to 20 stages”

4. E4 Review: Pentium 4 a disappointment at 1.5 GHz CNN (IDG/PC World review) · 20 November 2000

   “Its widespread design innovations are directed primarily at cranking up clock speed--to 1.4 and 1.5 GHz initially, with sufficient headroom”

Clock speeds of about 1.5 GHz (E3, E4) against a maximum firing rate of 250–1000 Hz (E2) give a ratio of roughly 1.5–6 million, while against average firing rates of 0.1–2 Hz (E1) the ratio is far above 10^7. No evidence item establishes which neuron figure is the appropriate measure under the criteria, so the evidence does not settle the claim.