Data centers consume 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023, estimated to be used Up to 12% by 2028. Most energy data center sucking is used to help transfer data from the chip to the chip. A company called Hyper-Lume hopes to make the process more energy-efficient, while also speeding up the process.
Ottawa, Canada-based Hyperlume creates a version Microgel Information can be transmitted faster than copper-based connections commonly found between racks in data centers. These microfilms also require less energy to transmit data compared to copper wires.
HyperLume co-founder and CEO Mohsen Asad told TechCrunch that the company was a “logical extension” he and his co-founder Hossein Fariborzi did before they started the company. ASAD’s background in electrical engineering led him to pursue a career focused on finding ways to transfer data between chips and between shelves. Fariborzi has expertise in low power circuit design.
“I’m working on microfilm, I’m working on data transmission, and the boom of AI and the requirement to send information from chips to chips, power consumption – everything is naturally fused together,” Asad said. “We found a huge market opportunity,” he said. .”
Asad said energy consumption and latency have been issues with chip-to-chip communication in data centers, but they have exacerbated them due to the rise and breakthrough speed of AI. ASAD added that addressing latency issues or data latency will not only speed up existing links between chips, but also unlock chip capacity that is inaccessible due to latency bottlenecks.
“If we can actually solve this lurking problem, we will do [chips] Working together faster,” Assad said. “When you have large language models […] You need the chip to communicate with almost zero latency. ”
When Asad and Fariborzi started Hyperlume in 2022, they first considered how to use existing technology to solve data center latency issues. Silicon is a potential option for connecting chips, but it is too expensive to use at scale. Laser similar costs are good.
Thus, hyperflow is designed to take cheap microfilm and refurbish it to transfer information from the chip to the chip very quickly, almost mimicking what fiber connections can do without the associated expense.
“The Secret Seasoning Sauce is a super fast microglue, and on the other side is a low-power ASIC that drives everything and communicates with other fries,” Assad said.
Hyper-Lume is currently working with a handful of early customers (most in North America) while it can fine-tune its products. ASAD said the company has also received a lot of inbound interest, especially from growing interest from Hyperscalers, among other cable manufacturers and companies that can benefit from the technology.
“Our first phase is working with those early adopters – once the technology is proven and enters the data center with these early adopters, it will give us the opportunity to expand our collaboration with other markets,” Assad said. Demand is there, growing and growing every year. ”
Hyperlume recently raised a $12.5 million seed round led by BDC Capital Deep Tech Venture Fund and Arctern Ventures, and joined other supporters along with MUUS climate partners, Intel Capital and SOSV.
The new capital will be used to hire more engineers and build the funds needed to continue developing superglue technology, so (ideally) more customers will be gained soon. In the future, the company hopes to expand its bandwidth to be technically prepared for the next generation of powerful data centers.
“Currently, we are focusing on optical connections, connecting chips together, connecting boards together, but the way we see the company grow is that it will be an AI connectivity solution provider,” Asad said.
