“The new device is built from arrays of resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cells… The team was able to combine the speed of analog computation with the accuracy normally associated with digital processing. Crucially, the chip was manufactured using a commercial production process, meaning it could potentially be mass-produced.”
Article is based on this paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01477-0
It uses 1% of the energy but is still 1000x faster than our current fastest cards? Yea, I’m calling bullshit. It’s either a one off, bullshit, or the next industrial revolution.
EDIT: Also, why do articles insist on using ##x less? You can just say it uses 1% of the energy. It’s so much easier to understand.
I mean it‘s like the 10th time I‘m reading about THE breakthrough in Chinese chip production on Lemmy so lets just say I‘m not holding my breath LoL.
They’re real, but they aren’t general purpose and lack precision. It’s just analog.
For the love of Christ this thumbnail is triggering, lol
Why? It’s standard socket in SMOBO design (sandwich Motherboard).
The CPU is upside down you dork.
Let me guess, you think The Onion is a real newspaper, right?
I mean, in 2025 it’s basically a preview. It’s gone from to satire to prophecy.
(x) Doubt.
Same here. I wait to see real life calculations done by such circuits. They won’t be able to e.g. do a simple float addition without losing/mangling a bunch of digits.
But maybe the analog precision is sufficient for AI, which is an imprecise matter from the start.
Look, It’s one of those articles again. The bi-monthly “China invents earth-shattering technology breakthrough that we never hear about again.”
“1000x faster?” Learn to lie better. Real technological improvements are almost always incremental, like “10-20% faster, bigger, stronger.” Not 1000 freaking times faster. You lie like a child. Or like Trump.
Analog is literally computing on the fabric of the universe.
You mean like all computers
You are dumb.
You have gotten close to understanding something profound and failed to understand that the thing in your hand also represents that profundity.
Dumby.
Computation is arranging the structure of the universe to reflect itself and something not a mind but a necessary component part thereof. All computing is literally computing on the structure of the universe. A well expressed thought to which you shall reply what? “Dumby” not even a word anyone uses. It’s not merely that you are incapable of expressing an alternative position you are not even capable of calling someone stupid correctly.
Why are you so dumby???
1000x!
Is this like medical articles about major cancer discoveries?
yes, except the bullshit cancer discoveries are always in Israel, and the bullshit chip designs are in china.
1000x yes!
Yes. Please remember to downvote this post and all others that are based on overblown articles from nobody science blogs.
This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.
Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.
That’s a good point. The model weights could be voltage levels instead of digital representations. Lots of audio tech uses analog for better fidelity.I also read that there’s a startup using particle beams for lithography. Exciting times.
sounds like bullshit.
read the paper
The problem is with the clickbait headline (on livescience.com), not the paper itself.
> See article preview image > AI crap CPU > Leaves immediatelyWhich is worse - AI slop, or people decrying everything they see as AI slop, even when it isn’t?
This already a thing, there’s a US lab doing this
cool
