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China's ACCEL Chip 12x Faster, 1/200th Energy of Digital Rivals

China's ACCEL Chip 12x Faster, 1/200th Energy of Digital Rivals
New Chinese analogue AI chip leaps ahead with 12× speed and 1/200th the energy of digital rivals · firstpost.com

Chinese scientists have created a special computer chip called ACCEL that uses light to do calculations.

This chip is much faster and uses much less energy than regular computer chips.

It can do things like recognizing pictures and helping self-driving cars make decisions.

The chip is so efficient that it can run for over five centuries on the same energy a regular chip uses in one hour.

This new technology could help make computers more powerful and use less electricity, which is good for the environment.

The chip was made using older technology, so it doesn't need the newest and most expensive parts.

Right now, it's really good at specific tasks like recognizing videos, but it can't do everything a regular computer chip can do.

Key facts

Chip Name
ACCEL (All-Analogue Chip Combining Electronic and Light Computing)
Developer
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Speed
12 times faster than digital processors
Energy Efficiency
74.8 peta-operations per second per watt
Performance
3,000 times faster than NVIDIA’s A100 GPU in vision tasks
Applications
Image recognition, autonomous driving, recommendation systems
Manufacturing
Older, accessible transistor technology (not sub-5nm)
Accuracy
Over 90% in video recognition

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