NEW LIGHT-BASED CHIPS OFFER 3X MORE COMPUTER PER WATT THAN GPUS

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This recent paper published in Nature details a CNN trained for classification that processes each frame in just 72ns and uses far fewer watts than traditional computer systems. With the recipe of AI continuing towards more FLOPs, more data, and larger models - these chips might be necessary to reach future levels of performance.