BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 31 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Every time you ask a chatbot a question or generate an AI image, electricity moves through a maze of wires between memory and processor. That trip, not the math itself, is what's driving up the energy cost of artificial intelligence. As AI models become bigger, this bottleneck gets worse, increasing electricity use and putting more pressure on the power grid.
Omiya Hassan, assistant professor in the College of Engineering's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, or ECE, received nearly $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to help close the gap between memory and processing.
The three-year project, titled "3D Integrated Parallel Fabri...