So one other designer plus Google is using alpha chip for their layouts? - not sure on that title, call me when amd and nvidia are using it
How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
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Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#32I must be old because first thing I thought reading AlphaChip was why is deepmind talking about chips in DEC Alpha :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha .
I first used Windows NT on a PC with a DEC Alpha AXP CPU.
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#34How far are we from memory-based computing going from research into competitive products? I get the impression that we are already well passed the point where it makes sense to invest very aggressively to scale up experiments with things like memristors. Because they are talking about how many new nuclear reactors they are going to need just for the AI datacenters.
And think of the embedded applications.
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#35A marvellous achievement from DeepMind as usual, I am quite surprised that Google acquired them for a significant discount of $400M, when I would have expected it to be in the range of $20BN, but then again Deepmind wasn’t making any money back then.
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#36I'm pretty sure Cadence and Synopsys have both released reinforcement-learning-based placing and floor planning tools. How do they compare...?
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#38I'd love a tool like this for PCB design/layout
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#39Why aren’t they using this technique to design better transformer architectures or completely novel machine learning architectures in general? Are plain or mostly plain transformers really peak? I find that hard to believe.
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#40A marvellous achievement from DeepMind as usual, I am quite surprised that Google acquired them for a significant discount of $400M, when I would have expected it to be in the range of $20BN, but then again Deepmind wasn’t making any money back then.
it was very early. probably one of their all time best acquisitions in addition to YouTube.
Re:using RL and other types AI assistance for chip design, Nvidia and others are doing this too