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Researchers achieve the First Silicon Integrated ECRAM for a Practical AI Accelerator

Illinois researchers achieve the first silicon integrated ECRAM for a practical AI accelerator
ECRAM array. Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The transformative changes brought by deep learning and artificial intelligence are accompanied by immense costs. For example, OpenAI’s ChatGPT algorithm costs at least $100,000 every day to operate. This could be reduced with accelerators, or computer hardware designed to efficiently perform the specific operations of deep learning. However, such a device is only viable if it can be integrated with mainstream silicon-based computing hardware on the material level.

This was preventing the implementation of one highly promising deep learning accelerator—arrays of electrochemical random-access memory, or ECRAM—until a research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign achieved...

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