{"id":436387,"date":"2026-09-15T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436387\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:14:11","slug":"researchers-explore-energy-efficient-chips-to-make-ai-use-fewer-resources-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436387\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explore energy-efficient chips to make AI use fewer resources\u00a0 \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

UT researchers have been working on technology that would allow some artificial intelligence to use less energy in a collaboration with the world\u2019s largest semiconductor foundry, according to an Aug. 28 news release<\/a> from the Cockrell School of Engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Researchers from UT and the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company released a paper in August after three years of work that explored the use of spin-orbit torque magnetic random access memory, also known as SOT-MRAM, for AI. According to the news release, SOT-MRAM uses less energy than other memory technologies and does not require data centers to run.<\/p>\n

The goal of the project is to reduce AI\u2019s resource requirements without compromising the accuracy of the models, said Jean Anne Incorvia, the faculty lead on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t just keep pushing more energy and water into these big data centers to train these models,\u201d Incorvia said. \u201cWe do need more efficient ways, and that comes back around to, again, from the bottom up. Like how does every waste storage be more efficient?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Incorvia said the research group will continue working with TSMC even after publishing the paper. Incorvia said interest in this area of study has increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very interested in being creative and thinking forward, but we also want to think about technologies that could actually have a path forward to be used, like in our phones someday, and so that\u2019s where it was really exciting,\u201d Incorvia said.<\/p>\n

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Ph. D. student Vivian Rogers, who joined the study a year ago, said she is excited to continue working with TSMC. Rogers took over from Sam Liu, who began the study and is listed as the paper\u2019s first author, after he graduated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTSMC is like this big titan of the semiconductor industry, and to get to collaborate with them on this testing out of this advanced process and trying to find good applications for their new memory chips is like a really crazy opportunity,\u201d Rogers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rogers also said UT itself was a good place to study technology and material science. The UT administration has said it wanted to devote resources to materials science<\/a> over the past year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking at the intersection of material science, semiconductors and computer engineering is super rewarding,\u201d Rogers said. \u201cWe\u2019re really lucky to be in an environment at UT that, at least in the electrical engineering department here, feels very creative, and a lot of it is self-directed in such a way that there\u2019s a lot of support and guidance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UT researchers have been working on technology that would allow some artificial intelligence to use less energy in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-436387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}