Startup gets $100M funding for low-power analog AI chips

Interview AI chip startup EnCharge claims its analog artificial intelligence accelerators could rival desktop GPUs while using just a fraction of the power. Impressive — on paper, at least. Now comes the hard part: Proving it in the real world.

The outfit boasts it has developed a novel in-memory compute architecture for AI inferencing that replaces traditional transistors with analog capacitors to achieve a 20x performance-per-watt advantage over digital accelerators, like…