DTM E58. The Future of AI Chips - Dr. Naveen Verma, Encharge.ai

Naveen Verma, Ph.D., is the Co-founder and CEO of EnCharge AI. At Encharge, he leads a team of engineering veterans from NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, IBM, and AMD who are commercializing a revolutionary AI chip that solves the energy, scalability, and cost constraints of existing AI compute technologies. Naveen spent the last six years leading the cutting-edge research behind EnCharge AI’s core technology as a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University, where he has done pioneering research in a range of emerging technologies and systems since 2009, including with DARPA funding. His breakthrough, peer-reviewed discoveries in next-generation in-memory computing have been widely recognized and have led to demonstrated step-change increases in performance and efficiency that are the foundation of Encharge AI’s full-stack commercial AI chips.

Links & References:

Naveen Verma- naveen-verma (LinkedIn)

Encharge - encharge.ai, LinkedIn

Pronojit Saha, DTM Podcast - pronojitsaha (LinkedIn), @pronojits (Twitter)

On today’s episode we discuss,

• The Inspiring Journey of Encharge.ai: From Founding Story to Breakthrough Innovation

• The Problem Encharge is Solving: Why existing chips are not very efficient for handling extreme compute workloads

• Solving the Problem from First Principles Thinking: Encharge's breakthrough innovation combining analog+digital

• Major Technologies Comprising Encharge's Innovation

• How Encharge is Uniquely Positioned: The insight

• Can’t NVIDIA Build These Chips?