China's AI Analog Chip Claimed to Be 3000X Faster Than Nvidia's A100 GPU

- China's ACCEL chip, developed by Tsinghua University, is claimed to be 3000 times faster than Nvidia's A100 GPU and has 4000 million times higher energy efficiency.

- The chip leverages photonic and analog computing in a specialized architecture, delivering over 3000 times the performance of the Nvidia A100 at an energy consumption that's four million times lower.

- ACCEL can perform 4.6 trillion operations per second in vision tasks, which is a significant improvement compared to Nvidia's A100.

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