{"id":5333,"date":"2024-03-12T09:19:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2024-03-12T09:19:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T01:19:07","slug":"%e5%ae%a3%e7%a7%b0%e5%85%b6-cpu-%e8%ae%be%e8%ae%a1%e8%83%bd%e6%95%88%e9%ab%98%e4%ba%8e%e7%8e%b0%e6%9c%89-mcu-%e7%99%be%e5%80%8d%ef%bc%8c%e5%88%9b%e4%bc%81-efficient-computer-%e5%b7%b2%e8%8e%b7-1600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/5333.html","title":{"rendered":"Claiming that its CPU design is 100 times more energy efficient than existing MCUs, startup Efficient Computer has received $16 million in financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vmark=\"7179\">Integrated Reuters, Tom's Hardware and SiliconANGLE, start-ups <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/efficient-computer\" title=\"[See article with [Efficient Computer] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Efficient Computer<\/a> Recently announced that its energy-efficient Fabric architecture Monza processor test chip has been returned, and received $16 million (currently about 115 million RMB) in seed round funding<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e8%9e%8d%e8%b5%84\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [financing]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Financing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"5f72\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5334\" title=\"eb9a534f-b633-4616-98c0-795d2fe00f84\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/eb9a534f-b633-4616-98c0-795d2fe00f84.jpg\" alt=\"eb9a534f-b633-4616-98c0-795d2fe00f84\" width=\"1498\" height=\"1216\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u25b2 Monza test chip. Image source: Efficient Computer official<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"ce04\">Efficient Computer claims that existing von Neumann architecture processors &quot;waste 99% of energy&quot;: these processors are optimized for performance first, thus sacrificing energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"09af\">at the same time,<span class=\"accentTextColor\">Current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/cpu\" title=\"[SEE ARTICLES WITH [CPU] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >CPU<\/a> Over-designed for compatibility with legacy software and possible workloads<\/span>, ultimately paying the price in power consumption for a large number of memory-related instructions and parallelism.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"6b63\">Those specialized processors lack general programmability, which means their overall efficiency is limited by their slowest part, hindering improvements in energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"1c19\"><span class=\"accentTextColor\">Efficient Computer calls its Fabric a general-purpose &quot;post-von Neumann&quot; architecture that supports software programmability.<\/span>, offloads decisions about parallel processing to its dedicated compiler and uses spatial parallelism to eliminate most of the overhead.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"b280\">This compiler is designed with reconfigurable CPU hardware to minimize energy consumption. In terms of compatibility, it supports multi-level intermediate representation (MLIR), allowing existing applications to run on Fabric architecture processors without modification, and supports all major embedded languages.<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"845e\">\u201cEnergy consumption impacts nearly every aspect of modern computing, from where devices are located to the capabilities they provide and the scale of deployment,\u201d said Brandon Lucia, co-founder and CEO of Efficient Computer. \u201cWe are removing energy barriers to edge computing while giving developers the freedom and flexibility to quickly build devices and applications at scale. Efficient hardware and software will significantly reduce computing energy consumption, enabling entirely new categories of use cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-vmark=\"bb13\">Efficient Computer&#039;s processor products are aimed at civil\/industrial Internet of Things, infrastructure monitoring, wearable devices and defense. SiliconANGLE said<span class=\"accentTextColor\">It will deliver mass-produced chips to customers early next year<\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrated Reuters, Tom's Hardware and SiliconANGLE reported that the start-up company Efficient Company recently announced that its energy-efficient Fabric processor test chip had been returned and obtained $16 million (currently about RMB 115 million) in seed ship financing. \u25b2 Monza test chip. Source Efficient Computer Official Efficient Computer claims that the existing Von Noyman frame processor \u201cwasted 99% energy\u201d: These processors are first designed for performance optimization, thus sacrificing energy efficiency. Meanwhile, for the time being<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1619,1620,421],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cpu","tag-efficient-computer","tag-421"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","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=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}