Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design
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Study tries to settle a bitter disagreement over Google’s chip design AI
Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD), things got out of hand. It was described by observers as a “trainwreck” and an “ambush.” The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than those of humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. It pitted established male electronic design automation (EDA) experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher.…
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