“Since this is a new process, popular and readily available hardware on the market, like Nvidia’s upcoming Blackwell GPUs, aren’t designed to handle this algorithm.”
BitEnergy AI says its L-Mul trick swaps floating-point multiplication for integer addition and cuts power “potentially up to 95%.” Up to means the ceiling, not the result. No shipping chip runs it, so the savings live on paper until someone builds custom silicon. Meanwhile Google’s emissions are up 48% since 2019 on the hardware that actually exists.