FCC gives Starlink a green light; 300 mm silicon photonics from Tower; AI driven chip design; using cellphones as earth sensors; tools to ensure symmetry in analog design.
Late to this post but enjoyed it a lot. One question though… why wasn’t alphaChip discussed in the section of LLMs for chip design? Sure the approach doesn’t use LLMs but it is using AI to automate stuff so broadly falls in the same category and if it really works as well as it is advertised it’s probably the biggest breakthrough in how chips are designed in the past few years. It would be interesting to have someone not totally onboard the genAI hype train evaluate the merits of alphaChip in a calm and measured way.
No apologies needed at all. I was merely hoping you would know it well and distill it down for us. Everything that I try to read is either too technical or too laudatory. I have been using substack newsletters like yours to get a sense of where and what things are in the domains that I find interesting but lack depth in. So merely a wishlist. Also I would love it if you could breakdown your process of learning about a new field just enough to write an article about it.
Right. Seems like a good newsletter topic to be sure. I’m not sure I have a process for learning, but I should observe myself to see I can describe my own process in words.
Late to this post but enjoyed it a lot. One question though… why wasn’t alphaChip discussed in the section of LLMs for chip design? Sure the approach doesn’t use LLMs but it is using AI to automate stuff so broadly falls in the same category and if it really works as well as it is advertised it’s probably the biggest breakthrough in how chips are designed in the past few years. It would be interesting to have someone not totally onboard the genAI hype train evaluate the merits of alphaChip in a calm and measured way.
The reason I left out alphaChip is due to my own ignorance 😆 A look at it tells me that I should have included it, so I apologize.
I should dig in deeper, and see if I can find enough on it to write an article. Thanks for letting me know!
No apologies needed at all. I was merely hoping you would know it well and distill it down for us. Everything that I try to read is either too technical or too laudatory. I have been using substack newsletters like yours to get a sense of where and what things are in the domains that I find interesting but lack depth in. So merely a wishlist. Also I would love it if you could breakdown your process of learning about a new field just enough to write an article about it.
Right. Seems like a good newsletter topic to be sure. I’m not sure I have a process for learning, but I should observe myself to see I can describe my own process in words.
+1 vote for this format becoming a regular fixture in VNL