Nanoveu cuts AI chip energy use by 56×
Key points
- Nanoveu unveiled new ECS-DoT-22 chip benchmark results showing up to 56× lower energy consumption than published competitors.
- Nanoveu shares traded 4% higher at $0.052 following the announcement.
- The firm aims to capture battery-powered sensor markets by launching off-the-shelf evaluation kits and developer tools this month.
Nanoveu (ASX:NVU) reported that its EMASS subsidiary’s ECS-DoT-22 chip achieved up to 56× lower energy consumption per artificial intelligence inference.
The company stated its purpose-built models outperformed published results from competitors Syntiant Core 2 and BrainChip AKD1000 across four MLPerf Tiny workloads.
"These models were built for our accelerator, and the difference shows: more accurate than the reference on every workload, up to nine times faster, and keyword spotting and anomaly detection below a microjoule," said EMASS founder and Nanoveu director Mohamed Sabry.
The company reported sub-microjoule energy consumption of 0.56 µJ for keyword spotting and 0.39 µJ for anomaly detection while running up to 9× faster at 50 MHz.
Nanoveu plans to release its integrated development environment and AI compiler in November to let customers independently replicate these results.
Following the announcement, the Nanoveu share price was up at $0.052.
The company recently signed DigiKey as a global distributor on Nov. 10, received its first 16nm silicon from TSMC in September, and reported 33 active customer opportunities, including eight design-ins.
