AI-Powered Chip Design: MediaTek Adopts Google's AlphaChip

Google Unveils AlphaChip: An AI for Designing Processors, Already Adopted by MediaTek Google has introduced AlphaChip, a neural network designed to create chip layouts. This AI aims to significantly accelerate the processor design process, optimizing performance, power consumption, and chip area. The method has already been tested in developing Google's Tensor processors and adopted by other companies, including MediaTek. Processor layout is considered the most time-consuming and labor-intensive phase of chip development. While Synopsys has created an AI to assist humans in this area, which Samsung has tested, Google is also focused on simplifying the process. Traditionally, it takes engineers around 24 months to design a GPU within a chipset and several months for simpler elements, leading to significant expenses for companies. Google claims AlphaChip can dramatically accelerate this process, generating a chip layout in just a few hours. Moreover, the results are said to be &quo…