A Vancouver startup says it has a tiny fix for data centers’ enormous energy problem: A “chiplet” designed to deliver power to computers much more efficiently.

“As you free up all this power you can fit in more performance,” said Peng Zou, PowerLattice’s co-founder and CEO. “We can envision this will be a very huge impact.”

PowerLattice announced Monday that it has raised $25 million in fresh investment for its technology. Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is joining PowerLattice’s board. He’s a general partner at Playground Global, a venture capital firm that joined Monday’s investment round.

PowerLattice says it has designed a “chiplet” — an especially small computer chip with a specific purpose — that sits close to the processors that do the big thinking for artificial intelligence. The

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