Bizarre AI chip demo uses butter to highlight how new chip runs 40 degrees cooler than the competition

Processors generating excess heat play a significant part in contemporary data center design, cost, and resource use. However, things could be vastly different if AI chips were more efficient and ran far cooler. South Korean chip startup DEEPX, recently featured by CNBC, thinks its AI chip designs are the answer. DEEPX demonstrated its DX-M1 processor’s cool-running capabilities in a bizarre new dairy-based thermal benchmark. While rival chips caused a knob of butter to sizzle in seconds, atop the DEEPX solution, the butter block remains solid.

Concerns over AI data center proliferation are growing worldwide. These developments are shaping business, the environment, and politics. Some people have very strong feelings about them, and hundreds of people have risked being thrown into jail protesting data centers. …