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🤖🦾 Ultra-Fast Data Compression, AI Factories, and The Bitter Lesson
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Benjamin Wolba
June 21, 2024
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ZeroPoint Technologies: Shaping the Future of Ultra-Fast, Hardware-Based Data Compression
Data centers are the backbone of our digital world. As the demand for compute skyrockets, so does the need to store and retrieve data efficiently, not only for streaming high-definition videos but also for training the latest AI models.
Currently, data centers consume about 2% of global electricity, with projections suggesting this could be 5x by 2030. Despite the push for renewables, managing the rising energy costs remains a challenge. But what if you could remove up to 70% of unnecessary data and thereby boost performance per watt by up to 50%?
ZeroPoint Technologies pioneers hardware-based data compression that can increase memory capacity by 2-4x and reduce the total cost of ownership for servers by up to 25%. Founded in 2016 by Per Stenström and Angelos Arelakis, it recently closed a €5.0M Series A, led by Matterwave Ventures, and joined by Industrifonden, Climentum Capital, and Chalmers Ventures.
Learn more about the future of ultra-fast, hardware-based data compression from our interview with the CEO, Klas Moreau:
Future of Computing News
🤖 News of the week: Nvidia eclipses Microsoft as world's most valuable company (Reuters)
🤖 Nemotron-4 340B: NVIDIA Releases Open Synthetic Data Generation Pipeline for Training Large Language Models (Nvidia)
🔬 Linear accelerators could turbocharge EUV lithography: Is the Future of Moore’s Law in a Particle Accelerator? (IEEE Spectrum)
🦾 “Build, maintain, and operate” AWS’ cloud data center cluster in the Frankfurt metropolitan area: Amazon to spend €10B on expanding its cloud and logistics operations in Germany (SiliconAngle)
🦾 Planning a multi-year investment of up to $2 billion: onsemi Selects the Czech Republic to Establish End-to-End Silicon Carbide Production for Advanced Power Semiconductors (onsemi)
🤖🦾 Building an “AI factory”: Musk’s xAI supercomputer will get server racks from Dell and Super Micro (FasTcompany)
🖥️ It’s amazing that it’s even an option: The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops (The Verge)
⚛️ 20 qubits and counting: Germany Launches First Hybrid Quantum Computer At Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (The Quantum Insider)
⚛️🧱 Generative Chemistry and Accelerated DFT: Introducing two powerful new capabilities in Azure Quantum Elements (Microsoft)
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