{"id":193714,"date":"2024-07-28T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/breakthrough-cram-technology-ditches-von-neumann-model-makes-ai-1000x-more-energy-efficient"},"modified":"2024-07-28T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T03:28:09","slug":"breakthrough-cram-technology-ditches-von-neumann-model-makes-ai-1000x-more-energy-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/breakthrough-cram-technology-ditches-von-neumann-model-makes-ai-1000x-more-energy-efficient","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough CRAM technology ditches von Neumann model, makes AI 1,000x more energy efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-cram-technology-ditches-von-neumann-model-makes-ai-1000x-more-energy-efficient.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Futurology: The global demand for AI computing has data centers consuming electricity like frat houses chug beer. But researchers from the University of Minnesota might have a wildly innovative solution to curb AI\u2019s growing thirst for power with a radical new device that promises vastly superior energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers have designed a new \u201ccomputational random-access memory\u201d (CRAM) prototype chip that could reduce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techspot.com\/news\/100464-ai-energy-demands-could-soon-match-entire-electricity.html'\">energy needs<\/a> for AI applications by a mind-boggling 1,000 times or more compared to current methods. In one simulation, the CRAM tech showed an incredible 2,500x energy savings.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional computing relies on the decades-old von Neumann architecture of separate processor and memory units, which requires constantly moving data back and forth in an energy-intensive process. The Minnesota team\u2019s CRAM completely upends that model by performing computations directly within the memory itself using spintronic devices called magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Futurology: The global demand for AI computing has data centers consuming electricity like frat houses chug beer. But researchers from the University of Minnesota might have a wildly innovative solution to curb AI\u2019s growing thirst for power with a radical new device that promises vastly superior energy efficiency. The researchers have designed a new \u201ccomputational [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}