We’re proud to announce Efficient Computer’s first customer partnership: BrightAI is integrating our Electron E1 processor into its Stateful platform to deliver scalable, intelligent edge deployments. This marks an exciting milestone for Efficient — the Electron E1 is now powering real-world infrastructure, helping BrightAI bring AI into the physical world with unprecedented efficiency. Together, we’re showing what’s possible when performance and efficiency come together at the edge. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g2CsKFCp #EfficientByDesign #FabricArchitecture #EdgeAI
Efficient Computer
Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 7,251 followers
The most energy-efficient general purpose processors ever made.
About us
Efficient is building the world’s most energy-efficient general-purpose processor by combining ultra-efficient hardware with an intuitive, developer-friendly compiler and software stack that unlocks 10–100× efficiency gains across every part of an application, including AI. Efficient was founded in 2022 to commercialize a breakthrough in efficient computation developed over nearly a decade by a team of world-leading computer architects. Efficient's world-class team has produced two silicon implementations of the Fabric architecture: the Electron E0, a prototype system-on-chip, and the Electron E1, the first silicon product. With Efficient's cutting-edge effcc Compiler and software stack, the Electron E1 processor has been delivered to customers as of mid-2025, ramping to large-scale volume and distribution in 2026. Efficient already has customer traction in areas such as physical AI for infrastructure and automation, space and defense, automotive, and consumer products. Efficient's technology scales from tiny “beyond the edge” devices to large-scale robotics, autonomy, edge cloud, and datacenter applications—enabling widespread adoption across multiple industries and positioning Efficient as the solution to the energy problem across all of computing.
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https://www.efficient.computer/
External link for Efficient Computer
- Industry
- Computer Hardware Manufacturing
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2022
Locations
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Primary
224 N Euclid Ave
Floor 4
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15206, US
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Bay Area, CA, US
Employees at Efficient Computer
Updates
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We’re excited to see Efficient Computer featured in The Link, the magazine of Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. From our roots at Carnegie Mellon University to building the Electron E1, the most energy-efficient general-purpose processor, this piece highlights how the Efficient Fabric is redefining what’s possible in computing. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gys7fCVv
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The Payoff: Accelerator-Class Efficiency for Everything Because all parts of your application run on the Fabric—not just selected kernels. That’s how it shifts the energy-performance curve on real workloads from end to end. The results show up where it matters: longer battery life on devices without room for a farm of accelerators, lower cloud costs thanks to fewer servers (and less cooling), and a simpler software stack—one toolchain, one binary, one happy developer. Ready to try it? Developers can reach out to us to get SDK access and run existing C/C++ code through the effcc Compiler with no code changes. Researchers can explore the architecture in our white paper. Hardware partners can reach out for IP licensing or evaluation kits. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gvFxMHSb #EfficientComputer #FabricArchitecture #effcc
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The effcc Compiler takes care of the hard work by analyzing program structure, handling loops, dependencies, and data reuse. From there, it maps tasks onto the Fabric mesh to unlock maximum parallelism and locality. The end result? A binary that runs right out-of-the-box—no manual tuning required, but with hooks available if you like to tinker. The future of efficient computing, made approachable. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gvFxMHSb #EfficientComputer #effcc #FabricArchitecture #ElectronE1
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Accelerators achieve their speed not through exotic math units, but by exploiting program structure. CPUs, by contrast, treat code as a sequence of instructions, missing this structural context. Our Fabric architecture brings structural awareness to a general-purpose processor. Programs are represented as fine-grained tasks that pass data directly to one another, values are stored in compact local memories, and no special instructions are required. This delivers accelerator-class efficiency with the flexibility of a CPU. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gvFxMHSb #EnergyEfficiency #FabricArchitecture #EfficientComputing
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Modern workloads — from AI inference to real-time analytics — rely on two extremes of silicon: CPUs: flexible, but costly in time and energy. Accelerators: efficient, but rigid and workload-specific. For decades, the industry has tried to balance the trade-offs by pairing them together. The results are familiar: fragmented toolchains, increasingly complex hardware, and rising costs for both energy and infrastructure. It is time for a different approach. One that combines accelerator-class efficiency with CPU-class programmability. Read how we are addressing this challenge: https://lnkd.in/gvFxMHSb #EnergyEfficiency #FabricArchitecture #EfficientComputing
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Too often, software is an afterthought in hardware design. At Efficient Computer, we built the effcc Compiler alongside the Electron E1 general-purpose processor, because true energy efficiency comes from integrating the two. Developers can now download the effcc Compiler to port code in familiar languages like C, unlocking the full performance of the Fabric architecture. #Efficient #ElectronE1 #GeneralPurposeProcessor #Compiler #Efficiency
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Efficient Computer was recently featured in SiliconANGLE & theCUBE, where the article highlights how the Electron E1 general-purpose processor and the Fabric architecture are changing what’s possible in energy-efficient computing. The piece also covers the release of our effcc Compiler, built alongside the Electron E1 to ensure seamless programmability and performance across entire applications. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gbC_mFpF
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Thank you to Semiconductor Engineering for featuring our Fabric architecture and the Electron E1 general-purpose processor in their coverage of advances in energy efficiency. Read here: https://lnkd.in/eahzSdB9
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Thank you to embedded.com for the deep dive into our Fabric architecture and how we're rethinking computing. We’re excited to see these ideas out in the world. Read the article: https://lnkd.in/gnVJGeZG