Neuromorphic computing may one day offer AI a power-saving brainwave
Hybrid systems could bring efficiency gains at the edge, but conventional infrastructure isn't going anywhere fast
Brain-inspired computing may one day help curb AI's ballooning energy demands, but don't expect it to replace today's datacenter hardware any time soon, UK politicans have been told.
Speaking to MPs this week, University of York professor Martin Trefzer said neuromorphic and other bio-inspired systems could improve efficiency by borrowing ideas from biological brains, where memory and processing are integrated rather than split across separate components.
Analysis from last year shows AI is the biggest driver pushing global datacenter electricity use to more than double by 2030 to around 945 terawatt-hours (TWh), slightly more than the entire electricity consumption of Japan.
"Data movement is probably one of the fundamental things we can learn from the brain. We don't have a memory bank on one computer and a [processor] on the other; it's all one...
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