Q&A with leaders of Intel's MESO chip: 'This will happen faster than you think'

Intel is working on a new transistor called MESO that could be 10 to 30 times more efficient than existing transistors, a potential game-changer for the industry (see our main article here). It could help solve many of the world's biggest problems, spurring AI efforts that could help everything from fighting climate change to improving waste management. We interviewed Intel's Amir Khosrowshahi, CTO of AI, and Ian Young, Senior Fellow and circuit designer and lead researcher on the MESO project. Khosrowshahi, who is supposed to be focused on product development and thus on projects with impact within the next 2 to 5 years, says he's more excited about MESO than any other project right now -- even though it could take 10 years to get to market. Young's team wrote a paper about MESO for Nature, published in December.