Google has developed a unique AI-based software system that can design computer chipsets faster than a human. It can essentially design the “floorplan” of a chipset, which takes months for a human engineer, in just six hours. The company claims that it has used the new software to design the next generation of its tensor processing units.
Coming to the working of the new software, it can design the “floorplan” of a chipset in six hours. Now, the floorplan of a chipset is the basic design of a silicon system-on-chip that determines the optimal positioning of the CPU, GPU, and memory units on a chipset.
Impact of the New AI Software.
Following the development of this AI software, the authors of the paper, Azalia Mirhoseini, and Anna Goldie, who are also the co-heads of machine learning systems at Google, said that their method “has been used in production to design the next generation of Google TPU” and can be used to design more sophisticated chipsets in the future.
