This New 3D Chip Could Shatter the “Memory Wall” Holding Back AI

This New 3D Chip Could Shatter the “Memory Wall” Holding Back AI

Stanford, CMU, Penn, MIT, and SkyWater Technology reached a major milestone by producing the first monolithic 3D chip manufactured at a U.S. foundry, achieving the highest density of 3D chip wiring to date and delivering speed improvements of an order of magnitude. Engineers from Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the [...]

Stanford’s Monolithic 3D AI Chip Hits 4× Gains—and Points to an Energy Breakout

Artificial intelligence has reached a critical crossroads where the digital appetite for data is outstripping the physical capabilities of the hardware that feeds it. For decades, the technology sector leaned heavily on the predictable rhythm of transistor shrinking to squeeze out more performance, but that well-worn path is now colliding with the challenging physics of heat and electrical resistance. Modern datacenters are now staggering under …