Hacker News with Generative AI: Chip Design

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How AlphaChip transformed computer chip design (deepmind.google)
AlphaChip’s groundbreaking AI approach revolutionizes a key phase of chip design.
Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon (ieee.org)
A vertical integration between Annapurna Labs and Amazon Web Services is paying off
Qualcomm eyes an acquisition of Intel's chip design business (pcgamer.com)
Qualcomm has explored buying pieces of Intel chip design business (reuters.com)
AmpereOne at Hot Chips 2024: Maximizing Density (chipsandcheese.com)
UK chip giant ARM developing GPU in Israel (globes.co.il)
Intel sells stake in chip designer Arm Holdings (reuters.com)