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Cognichip wants AI to design the chips that power AI, and just raised $60M to try

The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor?

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The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor?

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The most advanced silicon chips have accelerated the development of artificial intelligence. Now can AI return the favor?

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Cognichip is building a deep learning model to work alongside engineers as they design new computer chips. The problem it is trying to solve is one the industry has lived with for decades: Chip design is enormously complex, ruinously expensive, and slow. Advanced chips take three to five years to go from conception to mass production; the design phase alone can take as long as two years before physical layout begins. Consider that the latest line of Nvidia GPUs, Blackwell, contains 104 billion transistors — that’s a lot to line up.

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In the time it takes to create a new chip, Cognichip CEO and founder Faraj Aalaei says the market can change and make all that investment a waste. Aalaei’s goal is to bring the kind of AI tools that software engineers have used to speed their work into the semiconductor design space.

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