AlphaChip transformed computer chip design

Re:AlphaChip transformed computer chip design by negativeonehalf on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:28PM (#41664198)

Chips are the limiting factor for AI, and now we have AIs making chips better than human engineers. This feels like an infinite compute cheat code, or at least a way to get us very, very quickly to the physical optimum.

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Re:AlphaChip transformed computer chip design by pptr on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:53PM (#41664423)

It's 6% shorter wire length. Hardly an infinite compute glitch.

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Re:AlphaChip transformed computer chip design by negativeonehalf on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:55PM (#41664849)

6% is just the latest one - this is a real-deal engineering task in the chip design process, that an AI can do better than a human expert, and the gap is growing with time. I'm sure there's a limit, but we don't know what it is yet, especially as they hand over more of the chip design process to AI.

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