Chinese scientists have taught artificial intelligence (AI) to design new processors in the RISC-V architecture. In this respect informs with reference to the edition of Tom’s Hardware to work “Pushing the Boundaries of Machine Design: Computer Aided CPU Design with Artificial Intelligence,” published on the Cornell University Library website.
The document details the researchers’ work to develop a new processor. It is stated that after formulating all the tasks, the artificial intelligence completed the job in less than five hours. As a result, he received a chip in the RISC-V architecture, which the scientists called the RISC-V32IA. According to Chinese researchers, AI spent 1,000 times less time on a task than a group of human engineers.
The scientists created the RISC-V32IA with a 65 nm topology. The chip was able to develop a clock frequency of up to 300 MHz, which allowed it to be used to run Linux and pass tests in the SPEC CINT 2000 benchmark. In SPEC CINT 2000, the RISC-V32IA processor produced a comparable result. The Intel i486 chip was introduced in 1989.
Tom’s Hardware writes that the experience of Chinese scientists is not just of academic interest. According to the researchers, their experiments showed that artificial intelligence could be used to significantly shorten design and optimization cycles in the semiconductor industry. Moreover, the scientists considered the possibility of developing their idea and creating a self-developing machine: an artificial intelligence that could improve its capabilities through trial and error.
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