The managing partner at Silicon Valley investment firm Meta VC Partners, Bray native Conrad Burke was recently talking to some AI processing tech researchers at New York’s Columbia University. One of the researchers insightfully compared CPU chips, more suited to everyday general tasks in computing, to GPU ones which are used for more complex, specialist functions such as graphics or data processing. “Insects have great GPUs but poor CPUs. Humans are the opposite. That’s why it is so hard to swat a fly. Their GPU processing is at the edge, and very fast,” he said. Chipmaking giant Intel is stuck…

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