Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design
What is extremely telling is what is missing ... Design Rule Checking (DRC) and Layout Vs Schematic (LVS).<p>These require:<p>1) Longer bit length arithmetic<p>32-bit float simply isn&#x27;t enough.  64-bit float is close, but limited.  You really want 128-bit integer.  And nVidia isn&#x27;t delivering that.<p>2) Real algorithmic improvements<p>We&#x27;re still stuck with computational geometry algorithms that don&#x27;t parallelize.  It would be awfully useful if nVidia would actually research some new algorithms instead of just waving around the ML&#x2F;AI marketing wand.<p>But, then, this is the company that built itself on benchmarketing, so ...