Hyperlume wants to make communication between chips more energy-efficient and faster. That’s why the company has developed microLEDs.
Data center energy consumption is expected to rise from 55 gigawatts to 122 gigawatts by 2030. Most of the energy consumption comes from data centers, and more specifically from transferring data from chip to chip. Hyperlume wants to make that process more energy efficient.
How does it work?
Hyperlume has developed a version of microLEDs so that that info can be transferred faster than through the copper connections that data centers normally work with. Those microLEDs also require less power than copper wires.
Co-founder and CEO Mohsen Asad tells TechCrunch that energy consumption and latency in data centers have worsened with the rise of AI. “If we can practically solve this latency problem, we make sure that chips work together faster,” Asad said. “If you have large language models, you need chips that communicate with almost zero latency.”
For now, Hyperlume is only working with early adopters from the US. “Once the technology is proven and used in data centers with those early adopters, we will have the opportunity to scale up and work with the rest of the market.”
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