Novel Energy-Efficient Chips and Systems
The continuing expansion of information and communication technology has enabled significant advances across society, yet it has also introduced a pressing challenge: the unsustainable growth of energy consumption.
The vision of energy-efficient computing is to develop fundamentally new chips and systems capable of drastically reducing power consumption and associated CO鈧� emissions. Realizing this vision entails advancing beyond established paradigms and pursuing novel materials, devices, architectures, and system concepts.
Our research investigates these frontiers at multiple levels. At the hardware level, we are developing new classes of chip technologies that integrate electrical, optical, and magnetic effects to achieve efficiency. We examine data-processing approaches inspired by the human brain, a system that exemplifies ultra-low-power information handling, and we design materials whose intrinsic structural properties allow them to carry out computation directly. At the software and systems level, we focus on trustworthy, resource-aware artificial intelligence and AI-assisted software engineering to ensure that efficiency is addressed. Collectively, these efforts aim to establish future chips and systems that are simultaneously more capable and substantially more energy efficient.
Neuromorphic computing illustrates one of the promising directions. The human brain achieves exceptional energy efficiency by co-locating data storage and processing within the same physical substrate, thereby minimizing the extensive data movement characteristic of conventional architectures. By emulating these principles in artificial systems, neuromorphic chips and architectures promise computation that is not only faster and more robust but also radically more energy efficient.
Energy-efficient chips enable novel systems that last much longer in environments in which energy-supply is critical, including systems in healthcare, in smartphones and in drones.
Our sustainability focus
We will push for energy-efficiency and CO2 emissions by focusing on:
- Reducing the use of raw and hazardous materials
- Enabling longer lifespans for sensors and edge devices
- Simplifying remanufacturing and repurposing
- Creating more resilient, efficient, and sustainable supply chains
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Read more about our sustainability vision and programs within the 果冻传媒.
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