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Engineers develop thin film to make AI chips faster and more energy efficient

UH engineers making AI faster, reducing power consumption
This is the two-dimensional thin film electric insulator designed in the University of Houston lab of Alamgir Karim to make AI faster and reduce power consumption. Credit: University of Houston

Addressing the staggering power and energy demands of artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of Houston have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI devices significantly faster while dramatically cutting energy consumption.

The breakthrough, detailed in the journal ACS Nano, introduces a specialized two-dimensional (2D) thin film dielectric—or an electric insulator—designed to replace traditional, heat generating components in integrated circuit chips...

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