Summary
The amount of data processed by AI-based analytics has grown exponentially year over year. Unfortunately, this has unveiled a critical deficiency of contemporary computers: they physically separate their computation chips from their data storage chips, requiring each piece of data to move between the two whenever it needs to be processed. This separation wastes an increasing amount of energy and time on data movement, often 100 to 1000 times more than the computation itself, hindering the performance, efficiency, and potential uses of computers. For mobile computers such as smartphones, small