Energy-Efficient Computing for AI Roundtable

Date: 20 May 2025, Tuesday

Time: 14:00 – 16:30hrs

Venue: Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

Address: Franklin, Level 11, Connexis South Tower, 1 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138632

SEMI and A*STAR invite you to join a closed-door roundtable discussion that brings together industry, academia and government agency to discuss this topic of "Energy-Efficient Computing for AI"  The discussion will be held on May 20 at Fusionopolis in conjunction with SEMICON Southeast Asia 2025 (May 20 ~ 22).

Background

As AI proliferates rapidly, AI models and datasets are also growing exponentially in size, far outpacing performance improvement in hardware systems and infrastructure. Over the past ten years, the size of AI models has been increased by more than 1000x. The large volume of parameters and the huge computational cost make AI models extremely energy-consuming. 

While amazing innovations are happening in industry, academia and government institutes across the world, these challenges are formidable and cannot be solved in isolated silos. Collaborative, system-level innovation is needed across the entire-AI ecosystem – including novel devices, 2D materials, analogue computing, advanced packaging, chiplets, photonics, hardware-software co-optimization and energy-efficient architectures & algorithms for data centres, cloud & edge. 

Organizations such as SEMI and A*STAR provide an excellent platform to facilitate such collaborative innovation. 

Objective

The governing objective of this roundtable discussion is to identify the roadblocks/pain-points, and to determine specific opportunities for collaboration where SEMI and A*STAR can help "move-the-needle-forward." 

We will request each participant to share the biggest challenges and opportunities in this field from your unique perspective.

About

SEMI (www.semi.org) is a global electronics industry association with 3300 member companies. SEMI's global Smart Data-AI Initiative is focused on advancing computing sustainably for AI. 

A*STAR (www.a-star.edu.sg) is Singapore's largest research institute with approximate 5,400 employees. A*STAR's sustainable AI research team aims to developed green computing technologies for AI.