The chips powering AI can take years to design. This startup says AI did it in 2 weeks.
Architect Labs cofounders Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subedi. Bonnie Rae Mills The startup Architect Labs says it used AI to design and verify a chip in two weeks. An AI model running on the chip then found ways to improve it, its 20-year-old cofounder said. Researchers called the speed impressive, though they said manufacturing will be the ultimate test. AI is coming for one of the hardest jobs in the technology industry: chip design . The nascent startup Architect Labs, founded last year, is betting on the promise of using AI to accelerate design for both chipmakers and companies seeking custom hardware. It says it designed and verified a chip called Redwood in two weeks, with two human chip architects setting and refining the overall plan while AI handled the detailed design work. It would dramatically speed up a process that typically takes a year or more, costs hundreds of millions of dollars, and requires large, specialized teams of around 100 people, the company said. This lengt...
