Anker’s THUS AI Chip Platform Brings Neural-Net AI To Consumer Devices

InnovationConsumer TechAnker’s THUS AI Chip Platform Brings Neural-Net AI To Consumer DevicesByMark Sparrow,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs.Follow AuthorApr 22, 2026, 05:30am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Today's silicon chips can trace the origin and fundamental design back to 1945 when mathematician John von Neumann first outlined the concept.gettyEvery silicon chip can trace its ancestry back to an architecture that was first outlined in 1945 by mathematician John von Neumann. Silicon chips process instructions a step at a time; at any given moment, only a small piece of code is actually running. This means that memory and processor can be physically separated, allowing programs to reside in memory while the CPU handles one instruction at a time, executing each one before moving on to the next step. Since its inception, this processing model has worked relatively well, but electronics company Anker says that AI breaks that assumption. A neural network doesn’t chop up problems into steps, processing millions or even billions of learned parameters from end to end. Every inference requires one of those parameters to make a round trip between the memory and the processor. In a data center, all that fetching of parameters translates into a huge engineering cost. In a wearable device powered by a tiny battery, this is an obstacle because more than 90% of the power a chip consumes is spent on moving data around, leaving very little over for computation. Hungarian-born American mathematician Dr. John von Neumann (1903 - 1957) highlighted the need to program a device in terms of the fundamental computational functions it can perform.Getty ImagesTHUS AI PlatformAnker says the solution to the power and data paradox already exists in nature. Neurons in th...