An AI ‘Engineer’ Has Now Designed 100 Chips

Lurking inside your next gadget may be a chip unlike those of the past. People used to do all the complex silicon design work, but for the first time, AI is helping to build new chips for data centers, smartphones, and IoT devices. AI firm Synopsys has announced that its DSO.ai tool has successfully aided in the design of 100 chips, and it expects that upward trend to continue.Companies like STMicroelectronics and SK Hynix have turned to Synopsys to accelerate semiconductor designs in an increas