On 10 December at the gallery “Petroleja”, the winners of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) competition “Ideju kauss 2025” were announced. The main prize – €10,000 for idea development – was awarded to Aivars Vembris and Arturs Bundulis from the Latvian deep-tech startup “AP4PIC” for photonic polymer microchips to replace electrical microchips in data centres. This year’s winner offers a solution to one of the world’s fastest-growing challenges – the enormous electricity…
On 10 December at the gallery “Petroleja”, the winners of the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) competition “Ideju kauss 2025” were announced. The main prize – €10,000 for idea development – was awarded to Aivars Vembris and Arturs Bundulis from the Latvian deep-tech startup “AP4PIC” for photonic polymer microchips to replace electrical microchips in data centres. This year’s winner offers a solution to one of the world’s fastest-growing challenges – the enormous electricity consumption of data centres. A share of the electrical microchips used in data centres can be replaced with photonic microchips. Such replacement is becoming necessary because the use of artificial intelligence is driving up energy consumption in data…
