Re:AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
by dogleg77 on Sunday October 06, 2024 @01:09AM
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Yes, that's unfortunate. In that case, the Google Nature paper doesn't belong in Nature. Google is definitely free to claim that they revolutionized their business, but without scientific evidence this is just marketing.
Even if the AlphaChip authors redid Kahng's study properly, this still wouldn't give us useful information -- what matters is AlphaChip's ability to optimize chips in a real-life, production setting, for modern chips, where millions of dollars are on the line.