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World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I haven't heard about thermodynamic computing before, but it sounds pretty interesting. As IEEE Spectrum explains , "the components of a thermodynamic chip begin in a semi-random state. A program is fed into the components, and once equilibrium is reached between these parts, the equilibrium is read out as the solution. This computation style only works with applications that involve a non-deterministic result ... various AI tasks, such as AI image generation and other training tasks, thrive on this hardware." It sounds almost like quantum computing to my layperson ears. [edit: fixed link]

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sloppier compute architecture needed to drive down costs on sloppier method of computing.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If it makes AI cheaper then great because AI is a massive fucking waste of power, but other than that I am grossed out by this tech and want none of it.

[–] randomblock1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

up to 1000x energy consumption efficiency in these workloads

Seems like a win to me