IIIT Hyderabad professor develops chip to ease strain on machines powering AI systems

HYDERABAD: At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes sectors from healthcare and education to defence and finance, Prof Priyesh Shukla of IIIT Hyderabad is working on a hardware solution that aims to ease the strain on the machines powering these systems.

An assistant professor, Shukla is developing TVARAK-AI, a scalable and heterogeneous accelerator chip designed for sustainable inference in next-generation AI models. His work focuses on addressing the rising computational demands, memory constraints and energy use associated with modern AI systems, which are becoming larger and more complex.