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1. amelius · 1789774081 · focus · HN ↗

   At some point people will use an LLM to design an Apple M series competitor.

   1. Lramseyer · 1789776657 · focus · HN ↗

      Production grade CPU design is more than just the RTL (the source code.) To achieve the performance numbers that these companies get, you have to do a ton of optimization in your physical design to achieve the power/performance/area (PPA) metrics that make these products competitive. LLMs are not suitable for that kind of work.

      There are people working on PPA optimization and trying to shake up how things are done, just not with LLMs.

      1. IshKebab · 1789830047 · focus · HN ↗

         That's the sort of the AI (including non-LLM AI) is really good at - even more so than the actual design work.

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