This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)
View original at technologyreview.comMIT Technology Review - Ai Research Title: This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy) Date: 2026-09-08 10:36 Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/08/1142079/hannah-earley-computer-chips-recycle-energy/ <p>Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an…
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Conventional computing is like racing through a city only to pump the brakes at every intersection: the car loses momentum and must burn more fuel to accelerate again
60% confidenceVaire clearly has something interesting, but the technology is quite early stage and will need a series of increasingly realistic and convincing demonstrations to attract the industry support needed for commercialization
60% confidenceThe resonator is really a glorified pendulum
60% confidenceEarley believes the future lies not in refining existing chips but in rebuilding them from the ground up with an eye toward reversibility
60% confidenceUpon completing the core circuit design, Earley felt she was not completely out of her depth
60% confidenceMicklem eventually would not let Earley put his name on her papers because it was entirely her work
60% confidenceWaste heat in computer chips is a design choice, not an inevitable cost of calculation
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