Artificial Intelligence is making possible what has been unachievable for decades. Recent advances in AI have made it possible for algorithms to learn some of the dark arts involved in chip design.
Chipmakers, including Nvidia, Google, and IBM, are all testing AI tools that help arrange components and wiring on complex chips. In a paper published last month in the journal Nature, Google researchers showed that the approach could produce a chip design in a matter of hours rather than weeks.
Editorial note: Technologies like this one will transform computer engineering and the AI industry.