Hacker News with Generative AI: Chip Design

The Long Arc of Semiconductor Scaling (chipstrat.com)
I planned to write a chiplets explainer this week while traveling to and from CadenceLIVE in San Jose… but I got sucked into the broader chiplets backstory while doing research. After all, chiplets are a semiconductor manufacturing and scaling story of sorts!

Semiconductors, Chip Design, Manufacturing

10 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | 4 comments

Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design (theregister.com)
A key figure in in China’s drive to develop processors based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture has said the project will deliver in 2025, perhaps with a design that could be a datacenter contender.

RISC-V, China, Hardware, Chip Design, Open Source

6 points by magoghm 135 days ago | 0 comments

Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs (bloomberg.com)
Qualcomm Inc. prevailed at trial against Arm Holdings Plc’s claim that it breached a license for chip technology that the world’s largest maker of mobile-phone processors acquired when it bought a startup in 2021.

Technology, Lawsuits, Qualcomm, Arm, Chip Design

211 points by my123 154 days ago | 129 comments

Use cocotb to test and verify chip designs in Python (cocotb.org)
Use cocotb to test and verify chip designs in Python. Productive, and with a smile.

Hardware, Testing, Python, Chip Design

4 points by JoachimS 182 days ago | 0 comments

AI Alone Isn't Ready for Chip Design (ieee.org)
Chip design has come a long way since 1971, when Federico Faggin finished sketching the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, using little more than a straightedge and colored pencils.

Artificial Intelligence, Chip Design, Hardware, Technology

5 points by pseudolus 183 days ago | 2 comments

That Chip Has Sailed: Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design (arxiv.org)
In 2020, we introduced a deep reinforcement learning method capable of generating superhuman chip layouts, which we then published in Nature and open-sourced on GitHub.

Artificial Intelligence, Chip Design, Research, Deep Learning, Open Source

10 points by foweltschmerz 186 days ago | 9 comments

YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design (zach.be)
YC recently released their latest Request for Startups, and one specific item has already been getting some buzz in chip design communities. It’s exciting that an organization as high-profile as YC is taking chip design more seriously… or at least it’s exciting until you actually start reading what their proposal is.

Chip Design, Startups, Venture Capital

322 points by laserduck 188 days ago | 272 comments

Open-Source, Chiplet-Compatible RISC-V Controller (semiengineering.com)
A new technical paper titled “ControlPULPlet: A Flexible Real-time Multi-core RISC-V Controller for 2.5D Systems-in-package” was published by researchers at ETH Zurich and University of Bologna.

RISC-V, Open Source, Chip Design, Hardware, Computer Architecture

6 points by fork-bomber 213 days ago | 1 comments

Partitioning in the Chiplet Era (semiengineering.com)
The widespread adoption of chiplets in domain-specific applications is creating a partitioning challenge that is much more complex than anything chip design teams have dealt with in previous designs.

Hardware, Chip Design, Computer Architecture, Semiconductors, Technology

51 points by rbanffy 229 days ago | 11 comments

How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design (deepmind.google)
AlphaChip’s groundbreaking AI approach revolutionizes a key phase of chip design.

Artificial Intelligence, Computer Hardware, Chip Design

301 points by isof4ult 238 days ago | 191 comments

Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon (ieee.org)
A vertical integration between Annapurna Labs and Amazon Web Services is paying off

Amazon, Chip Design, Cloud Computing, Vertical Integration, Technology

80 points by mdp2021 250 days ago | 82 comments

Qualcomm eyes an acquisition of Intel's chip design business (pcgamer.com)

Acquisitions, Chip Design, Intel, Qualcomm

12 points by astlouis44 259 days ago | 0 comments

Qualcomm has explored buying pieces of Intel chip design business (reuters.com)