To automate the painstaking task of designing chips, Google researchers have developed an AI model – that designs a complex chip in hours.
This breakthrough work is so successful that Google used it for making its data center chips, which run AI operations. This new model is receiving industry-wide appreciation since it removed a burdensome task plaguing engineers for decades.
Chip Designing in Under 6 Hours!
Designing a complex chip that’s the size of our fingernails is so hard. It requires placing billions of components connected on a silicon die fitted into the end device for high performance and efficiency.
This is a tiresome task, as several engineers working on it will take several months to show up with a satisfying model. But, the critical work in this space can be cut off to an extent, as Google made a much-needed breakthrough .
Excited to share that our work has been published in Nature! Our RL agent generates chip layouts in just a few hours, whereas human experts can take months. These superhuman AI-generated layouts were used in Google’s latest AI accelerator (TPU-v5)! https://t.co/k12Kj4jfbC — Anna D Goldie (@annadgoldie) June 9, 2021
