Monday, August 23, 2021

Synopsys CEO: AI-designed chips will generate 1,000X performance in 10 years

This rather new development may have great potential: AI designed chips!

Moore's law extended!

"De Geus, one of the pioneers of chip design automation, said in an interview ... that the company’s software started using AI to design customer chips last year, with considerable improvements over human-designed chip architects. And rival Cadence Design Systems launched its own AI effort this year. But De Geus believes that rather than making chip architects obsolete, this development will move them up the chain so they become responsible for more kinds of tasks than is possible today. ...
Now [we] can do more things much faster. ...
And I believe this new era is moving from scale complexity to systemic complexity. ...
Synopsys now takes a comprehensive approach to autonomous chip design that goes beyond just layout. It leverages reinforcement learning to simultaneously optimize for power, performance, and area. ..."

Synopsys CEO: AI-designed chips will generate 1,000X performance in 10 years | VentureBeat



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