Concerns about datacentre energy consumption are nothing new. Noting a wasteful mismatch between the desktop central processing units (CPUs) and datacentre requirements, researchers set out to deliver a chip that was fit for purpose. The result was commercialized and sparked a trend for Arm-based server chips for the cloud. To […]

We are very proud to have contributed to this excellent initiative for the promotion of science to children. Dr. Xavier Ouvrard was a member of the team who collaborated to produce this excellent publication in graphic novel format. EPFL’s Center for Learning Sciences (LEARN) is releasing Utop’IA, an educational graphic […]

We asked the EPFL participants of the SwissChips initiative about the aims of their projects. Find out how our scientists are setting out on a new adventure: boosting the chip manufacturing industry of Switzerland ! Read on…

It takes ten times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward. Few people realize that the carbon footprint […]

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli has received two awards in the last two months: the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchoff Award and the election to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. In the same time period he has given keynote speeches at HiPEAC and DATE. HiPEAC took the opportunity to interview Prof. […]

Prof. Babak Falsafi was consulted by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Training and using artificial intelligence consumes huge amounts of energy. Even more efficient algorithms are unlikely to change this. More and better artificial intelligence (AI) is the goal of the major tech companies in the USA. In recent weeks, Open […]

In a keynote talk at the 2025 HIPEAC conference, Giovanni De Micheli, Director of EcoCloud‬, set out his vision for the future of computing systems design, echoing the Olympic motto for faster, higher, stronger systems. Prof. de Micheli emphasized the need for circularity, diversity, and international cooperation. Keynote speech – […]

The tank is almost empty. It contained university entrance exams, complex mathematical problems and, of course, the famous Turing test. But week after week, ChatGPT and competing systems manage to pass all these exams, with increasingly high scores. Hence the idea, launched this week, to find other ways of judging […]

The EPFL AI Center spoke to Dr. Xavier Ouvrard about the EcoCloud Research Facility. AI is not disconnected from materiality, so it requires energy, it requires cooling, it requires a lot of topics that need to be covered by an holistic approach in order to improve the overall sustainability (of […]

The X-HEEP event X-AGORA III was a great success! We were around 35 people in the room and 25 online, from 9 universities and companies. Feel free to watch the entire proceedings below.