Fears that data centers would devour our power grid were rampant in the early 2000s. The solution wasn’t more power plants.

While today’s AI chips are electronic and rely on electricity to perform ... In one striking result, just four nonlinear optical connections on the chip were equivalent to 20 linear electronic ...

Penn Engineers have developed the first programmable chip that can train nonlinear neural networks using light—a breakthrough ...

Optical networking chip startup nEye Systems Inc. wants to become the nerve center for artificial intelligence data centers ...

At GTC 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang projected $1 trillion in global data center CapEx by 2028. At this pace, data center ...

We've previously seen Android phones adopt long-distance Bluetooth connections, but a new flagship chip promises a distance ...

The Chinese-born entrepreneur at the center of a Singapore server-computer fraud case helps to run more than a dozen companies with ties to tech leaders including AI-chip provider Nvidia Corp ...

Another area where innovation will reduce AI’s energy needs is the connections between chips. Even as transistors have gotten smaller and allowed a given space to pack more “punch,” chips ...

The Chinese-born entrepreneur at the center of a Singapore server-computer fraud case helps to run more than a dozen companies with ties to tech leaders including AI-chip provider Nvidia Corp ...

AI efficiency innovations are happening on three fronts: chips, connections, and AI architecture itself. AI-related chips have already improved their energy intensity by over 99% since 2008, and we ...