How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
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How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
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Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#2Chips are the limiting factor for AI, and now we have AIs making chips better than human engineers. This feels like an infinite compute cheat code, or at least a way to get us very, very quickly to the physical optimum.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#3Chips are the limiting factor for AI, and now we have AIs making chips better than human engineers. This feels like an infinite compute cheat code, or at least a way to get us very, very quickly to the physical optimum.
It's 6% shorter wire length. Hardly an infinite compute glitch.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#4Chips are the limiting factor for AI, and now we have AIs making chips better than human engineers. This feels like an infinite compute cheat code, or at least a way to get us very, very quickly to the physical optimum.
It's 6% shorter wire length. Hardly an infinite compute glitch.
6% is just the latest one - this is a real-deal engineering task in the chip design process, that an AI can do better than a human expert, and the gap is growing with time. I'm sure there's a limit, but we don't know what it is yet, especially as they hand over more of the chip design process to AI.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#5Why do they keep saying "superhuman"? Algorithms are used for these tasks, humans aren't laying out trillions of transistors by hand.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#6Why do they keep saying "superhuman"? Algorithms are used for these tasks, humans aren't laying out trillions of transistors by hand.
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Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#7Why do they keep saying "superhuman"? Algorithms are used for these tasks, humans aren't laying out trillions of transistors by hand.
This is floorplanning the blocks, not every feature. We are talking dozens to hundreds of blocks, not billions-trillions of gates and wires.
I assume that the human benchmark is a human using existing EDA tools, not a guy with a pocket protector and a roll of tape.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#8I 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.
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#9Why do they keep saying "superhuman"? Algorithms are used for these tasks, humans aren't laying out trillions of transistors by hand.
This is floorplanning the blocks, not every feature. We are talking dozens to hundreds of blocks, not billions-trillions of gates and wires. I assume that the human benchmark is a human using existing EDA tools, not a guy with a pocket protector and a roll of tape.
Floorplanning algorithms and solvers already exist https://limsk.ece.gatech.edu/course/ece6133/slides/floorplan...
Re: How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design
#10Why do they keep saying "superhuman"? Algorithms are used for these tasks, humans aren't laying out trillions of transistors by hand.
My state-of-art bubblesort implementation is also superhuman at sorting numbers.