Vaire Computing CTO named MIT TR35 for chips that recycle waste heat into energy
MikePFrank · x · 2026-09-08
Hannah Earley, 31, CTO and cofounder of Vaire Computing, made MIT Technology Review's 2026 Innovators Under 35 list for reversible computing.
- Conventional chips erase intermediate information and dissipate energy as heat; Earley argues this is a design choice, not an inevitability.
- Reversible computing retains intermediate states so computation can run backward and recover energy—an idea proposed 50+ years ago but impractical until her patent-pending resonator design stores recovered energy for reuse.
- The goal: far more efficient data centers, laptops, and phones—directly relevant to AI compute energy costs.
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