With AI set to dominate over the next five years, electricity consumption will go through the roof. A low-footprint chip capable of handling the most advanced AI’s operations is, in Untether AI CEO Arun Iyengar’s view, essential to lightening the load.
Untether AI is a very rare breed among the many AI outfits springing up over the past decade.
But the future of AI chip design goes far beyond Untether. Tech superpowers like the U.S., Taiwan and China are pushing the boundaries of chip design in what appears to be the 21st century’s space race — or, arguably, the nuclear arms race. About 90 per cent of the semiconductor world outsources its productions, and the largest factories tend to be found on either side of the new Cold War.
There are all sorts of chips, just like there are all sorts of books. If you want to learn Russian, you wouldn’t pick up an English dictionary. From a silicon perspective, you need to figure out where and what How do your AI chips differ from what’s already on the market? Are they more resistant to heat? Are they faster?
That’s where we come in. We basically blow up the Von Neumann architecture and come up with a completely different means of putting memory and data processing right next to each other, so the data movement — and energy consumption — is minimized drastically. It moves such a tiny distance that we can’t even measure it with our naked eyes. But in traditional Von Neumann architecture, 90 per cent of the energy going into that chip is moving the data. We take that to pretty much zero.
We’re creating those opportunities for them. We’re giving them the chance to work in a cutting-edge company working on silicon, which would be the equivalent of what I’d be doing in a startup in Silicon Valley. That’s been a huge magnet, if you will, for people to say: ‘Wow, this is pretty cool.’ When they actually come in — and these are people that have worked at companies like Google — they think what we’re creating is very, very interesting technology.
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