Edge laptop/ smartphone computing co-optimizes AI algorithms, processor architecture, memory, circuits together, bypassing data centers

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1144086

"offloads intensive AI processing onto local hardware using high-efficiency photonics, drastically reducing overall energy consumption, improving processing speed/ privacy, addressing bandwidth constraints... holistic design methodology co-optimizes rather than developing each component in isolation... offloading significant computational demands from cloud infrastructure helps alleviate power grid congestion and environmental strain from water and energy use at scale... prototype confirmed chip's performance"

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