Artificial intelligence is currently the dominant topic when it comes to increasing digitalization. However, AI must be trained before it can be used. GEMESYS GmbH from Bochum, second in the audience award of the Innovation Prize NRW 2023 , is currently developing a chip that could greatly increase the efficiency of AI .
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to positively influence people's quality of life in many areas. In order for AI to have any effect , it must first be trained .
However, the hardware that is largely used today is not specifically designed for this task. This is where the innovation of GEMESYS GmbH from Bochum around the founding team Dr.-Ing. Dennis Michaelis, Dr.-Ing. Enver Solan, Daniel Krüger and Moritz Schmidt: a chip that works like the human brain to overcome data processing bottlenecks and provide AI with the hardware it needs to fulfill its purpose.
The GEMESYS team is continuously growing. Here (from left to right): Dr.-Ing. Enver Solan, Dr.-Ing. Dennis Michaelis, Moritz Schmidt, Daniel Krüger.
“There are great talents coming from the local universities that we will soon urgently need.”
During their work at the Chair of Digital Communication Systems at the Ruhr University Bochum - they had the same doctoral supervisor - Michaelis and Solan developed the first approaches to a chip from 2015 , the way it works is much closer to the human brain than any hardware before or on it Information processing mechanism based. In 2023 they founded GEMESYS GmbH for further development, together with Krüger and Schmidt. They assume that they can increase efficiency of AI ten compared to the current state of the art For this purpose, the chip is equipped with so-called memristors .
These are special hardware components that have only been able to be manufactured for a few years. The production of these components and their attachment to chips currently represents a technical challenge. The innovative technology developed by GEMESYS solves some of these difficulties and promises a scalable use of memristors . The vision of the four founders: They want to establish NRW as an important location for AI hardware beyond the borders of the state and Germany . In the meantime, they have been able to complete a “demonstrator” with which the theoretical principles developed can be demonstrated in practice for the first time. Next is a prototype. The first pilot project is scheduled to start with an industrial cooperation partner in 2025, and GEMESYS plans to enter the in 2028 .
“The schedule shows that developing this chip is an extremely complex process ,” emphasizes Michaelis. That is why he and his team, which now consists of ten people, are very grateful for the funding from the “EXIST research transfer” program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. However knowledge important as money . “Bochum and North Rhine-Westphalia are exactly the right location for us strategically,” explains Michaelis.
The start-up values its proximity to excellent research for two reasons: for recruiting and for future research collaborations. “There are great talents coming from the local universities that we will soon urgently need,” says Michaelis. GEMESYS has already benefited from two awards in NRW : GEMESYS was 1st place KUER.NRW . And at the Innovation Prize NRW 2023, Michaelis was for the audience award “innovation4transformation” . In a live vote, the innovator from Bochum received the second most votes .
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