{"id":36584,"date":"2025-06-02T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=36584"},"modified":"2025-06-02T13:33:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:33:59","slug":"%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6%e3%80%81%e8%8b%b1%e7%89%b9%e5%b0%94%e5%90%88%e4%bd%9c%e7%a0%94%e5%8f%91%e6%96%b0%e5%9e%8b-ai-%e5%86%85%e5%ad%98%e8%8a%af%e7%89%87%ef%bc%8c%e8%80%97%e7%94%b5%e9%87%8f%e6%9c%89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/36584.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Intel collaborate on new AI memory chip that's expected to cut power consumption in half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 2, 2011 - Nikkei Asia reported on June 31st.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%bd%af%e9%93%b6\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [softbank]]\" target=\"_blank\" >SoftBank<\/a>Working together<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8b%b1%e7%89%b9%e5%b0%94\" title=\"[Sees articles with [Intel] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >Intel<\/a>Developing a new AI-specific memory<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%8a%af%e7%89%87\" title=\"[Sees articles with [chips] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >chip<\/a>Its power consumption<strong>Expected to be significantly lower than current chips<\/strong>The company's AI infrastructure is a foundation for building an energy-efficient AI infrastructure in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36585\" title=\"1abe4ce1j00sx7rfn0028d000v900otp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1abe4ce1j00sx7rfn0028d000v900otp.jpg\" alt=\"1abe4ce1j00sx7rfn0028d000v900otp\" width=\"1125\" height=\"893\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The parties plan to design a new type of stacked DRAM chip with a different wiring scheme than the existing high bandwidth memory (HBM).<strong>Expected to reduce electricity consumption by about half<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Saimemory, a newly formed company, is responsible for the project, using technology from Intel and patents from the University of Tokyo and other Japanese universities, Saimemory will focus on chip design and patent management, while manufacturing will be handled by an external foundry.<\/p>\n<p>The project aims to complete a prototype within two years and then evaluate whether to put it into mass production, with the aim of commercializing it in the 2020s, with an overall investment estimated at 10 billion yen (note: about 500 million yuan at current exchange rates).<\/p>\n<p>Softbank is the main investor, contributing 3 billion yen (about 150 million yuan at the current exchange rate), while RIKEN and Kinko Seiki are also considering financial or technical participation. The project also plans to apply for government support.<\/p>\n<p>SoftBank hopes to bring this new memory<strong>for its AI training data centers<\/strong>. As the application of AI in higher-order fields such as enterprise management deepens, the demand for high-performance and high-efficiency data processing capabilities continues to rise, and this chip will be expected to build high-quality data centers at a lower cost.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 2 news, according to Nikkei Asia 31 report, Softbank is working with Intel to develop a new AI-specific memory chip, its power consumption is expected to be significantly lower than the current chip, for Japan to build the foundation of energy efficient AI infrastructure. The two sides plan to design a new type of stacked DRAM chip, using a different wiring method from the existing high bandwidth memory (HBM), is expected to reduce power consumption by about half. Saimemory, a newly formed company responsible for the project, is using technology from Intel, combined with patents from Japanese universities such as the University of Tokyo, and will focus on chip design and patent management, leaving manufacturing to an external foundry. The goal of the project is to complete a prototype within two years and then evaluate whether to go into mass production, with the goal of<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[238,240,1253],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-36584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-238","tag-240","tag-1253"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36584"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=36584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}