Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding

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Startup claims 100x more efficient processor than current CPUs, secures $16M in funding
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Our processors are 100x more efficient than state-of-the-art low-power CPUs. A single AA battery can power our processors for up to a decade

That's some really extraordinary claim.

It's so ridiculous I'm not even going to bother with the article

In their defence, there are a few research papers on their site with respect to the startup. I've not read it yet, but it might probably be legit, given how most of the founding members are from ivy-league universities.

An AA battery has around 10kJ of energy; spread over a decade that's 31 microwatts of power. No way they're doing useful computations with that.

A single AA battery is going to discharge itself just sitting on the shelf over a decade