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Need to Fit Billions of Transistors on a Chip? Let AI Do It



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Artificial intelligence is now helping to design computer chips—including the very ones needed to run the most powerful AI code.Sketching out a computer chip is both complex and intricate, requiring designers to arrange billions of components on a surface smaller than a fingernail. Decisions at each step can affect a chip’s eventual performance and reliability, so the best chip designers rely on years of experience and hard-won know-how to lay out circuits that squeeze the best performance and power efficiency from nanoscopic devices. Previous efforts to automate chip design over several decades have come to little.But …

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