Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis

Chip designers usually split a chip into small blocks, a process that takes months, so engineers build only a few kinds. Ricursive Intelligence, from the creators of AlphaChip, is building AI that lays out entire chips and improves with each attempt; one early layout was an odd donut shape that worked. They say faster design could ease the compute crunch and make efficient custom chips practical for far more uses.

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