Hybrid chips can run AI on battery-powered devices
By Tom Abate Smartwatches and other battery-powered electronics would be even smarter if they could run AI algorithms. But efforts to build AI-capable chips for mobile devices have so far hit a wall – the so-called “memory wall” that separates data processing and memory chips that must work together to meet the massive and continually growing computational demands imposed by AI. Hardware and software innovations give eight chips the illusion that they’re one mega-chip working together to run AI. (Image credit: Stocksy / Drea Sullivan) “Transactions between processors and memory can ...