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Cognichip emerges from stealth using generative AI to develop new chips

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/15/cognichip-emerges-from-stealth-with-the-goal-of-using-generative-ai-to-develop-new-chips/
2•ohong•14h ago

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bigyabai•13h ago
No hard numbers, no prototypes, but a whole lot of articulate hopes and dreams. I guess this is what we should come to expect when the industry invests in people over ideas.

So, let's address the elephant in the room; what will this solve? Today, chip design can be solved in highly efficient constraints using Verilog and no AI. Complex ASIC pipelines might benefit from a robot trying to optimize the logic, but I can't see how this would improve on modern RISC or SIMD architectures. If anything, trusting AI to write a "good enough" MVP is an opportunity for enormously inefficient mistakes to make their way into production chips.

Plus the other issue - maybe you can get your AI to out-perform Intel and Apple. But can you muscle your way into TSMC to start fabbing competitive hardware? Your AI-generated x86 chip could have twice the IPC of an AMD chip, but still end up slower if your clients are forced to fab it on 14nm silicon. Same goes for edge hardware - is your solution any cheaper than a Chinese STM-32 using GPIO?

The whole thing seems like a great idea for the 1950s, but a terrible solution to digital computer chip design.

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1•woldemariam•44s ago•0 comments

LeCabot, a $135 open-source alternative to Spot by BostonDynamics

https://github.com/phospho-app/lecabot
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The Hidden Diary of Samuel Pepys

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1•usdogu•8m ago•0 comments

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2•pseudolus•11m ago•0 comments

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https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/07/trump_supersonic_flight/
3•beardyw•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TapNfix – Instant help, anytime, anywhere

1•TapNfix•20m ago•0 comments

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1•bryanrasmussen•21m ago•0 comments

Buyer with Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got VIP Treatment at Crypto Dinner

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2•perihelions•21m ago•0 comments

HMAS Canberra accidentally blocks wireless internet in New Zealand

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3•kepair•29m ago•0 comments

Apple WWDC 2025 Preview: iOS 26, macOS 26, New AI Features, iPadOS 26

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-06/apple-wwdc-2025-preview-ios-26-macos-26-new-ai-features-ipados-26-redesigns
1•rcarmo•30m ago•0 comments

£127M wasted on failed UK nuclear cleanup plan

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3•penda•31m ago•0 comments

Web Proxy Sites 2025

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2•proxy2047•37m ago•0 comments

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1•dnsharma•38m ago•0 comments

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1•dmachard•38m ago•0 comments

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1•alexharri•40m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•41m ago•1 comments

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2•rbanffy•43m ago•0 comments

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1•rbanffy•1h ago•0 comments

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1•emrah•1h ago•0 comments

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1•rcarmo•1h ago•0 comments

Can Florida Eliminate Property Taxes?

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1•Ozarkian•1h ago•0 comments

Java at 30: Still brewing success or evaporating?

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1•babushkaboi•1h ago•0 comments

Schneier tries to rip the rose-colored AI glasses from the eyes of Congress

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/schneier_doge_risks/
5•mdp2021•1h ago•1 comments

Thousands of Instagram accounts suspended for unclear reasons

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-06-06/business/industry/Thousands-of-Instagram-accounts-suspended-for-unclear-reasons/2324424
2•me4502•1h ago•0 comments