• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    SemiKong advertises a 20-30% reduction in time to market for new chip designs and a 20% improvement in first-time-right manufacturing scores.

    Oh yeah? How is that accomplished when it can take a decade of development to get a new CPU out the door? Was this developed a decade ago?

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      11 days ago

      You know there are simpler custom chips too right?

      That said, it sounds a bit like bullshit to me too.

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        Totally but if we’re talking about simple custom chips, my point still stands as there is nothing to compare a custom chip to and the simplicity doesn’t seem to necessitate a LLM to map out.

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          That doesn’t follow at all…

          the simplicity doesn’t seem to necessitate a LLM to map out.

          So are you saying that if something is so simple that you could do it in a week, then it isn’t worth using a tool that would get it done in 4 days?

          I mean, no that doesn’t necessitate use of a LLM. But by that logic, doing math never necessitates the use of a calculator, just do it on paper. Sure, you could…

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            I’m saying there are simple and difficult chips to map out and the simple ones shouldn’t need this by virtue of being simple.

            Your analogy of using a computerized tool to complete a task doesn’t really hold as the math you use a calculator for wouldn’t be considered “simple math.”

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              No, the analogy is fine. If you have a task (math in the previous example) that takes some amount of time (doesn’t matter how much), is it worth using a tool (calculator) that makes it faster?

              That was the analogy.