energy efficiency

Large language models (LLMs) are widely used for tasks like translation, text classification, and customer service, but their power consumption and slow speeds have made them impractical for use on phones and laptops. Now, researchers at…

STMicroelectronics has launched a new line of 40V STripFET F8 MOSFETs that deliver enhanced noise immunity and design flexibility for power supplies, converters, and motor drives in both industrial and automotive applications. Featuring…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) just awarded nearly $975,000 to Charles Paillard, a University of Arkansas research professor of physics and director of the Smart Ferroic Materials Center, to study aluminum scandium nitride at the…

How memristors retain information without a power source, known as nonvolatile memory, was little understood until now. Researchers have recently discovered that phase separation works alongside oxygen diffusion to help memristors retain…

Insect brains aren't big. In fact, they're about the size of a pinhead. Could studying insect navigation and behavior help us get to energy-efficient computing by way of robots? It's not really a straight line, is it? But it is... and it…

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an open-source optimization framework called Zeus that can reduce the energy consumption of deep learning models by up to 75% without requiring any new hardware. This new tool,…

Everyone uses wall-wart power supplies somewhere. Most of us use a lot of them. Everything from cordless phones to printers, chargers, and security devices, use them. These ubiquitous power supplies quietly provide energy to power and…

onsemi held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its silicon carbide (SiC) facility in Hudson, New Hampshire. Several guests of honor attended the event, including several government dignitaries. The new facility will increase the company's SiC…

Maxim has now made available to designers of high-performance, high-power artificial intelligence (AI) systems the MAX16602 AI cores dual-output voltage regulator and the MAX20790 smart power-stage IC. The AI multi-phase chipset provides a…

Scientists at DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory demonstrated the observation of atoms moving in a tiny quantum electronic switch as it operates. They also discovered a new material state that could mean faster, more energy-efficient…