The Chinese Academy of Sciences AI generated chips, and the performance is comparable to Intel486
Some time ago, there was a ** report that researchers at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering passed through a relationship with artificial intelligence"Conversations"An 8-bit accumulator microprocessor was designed using GPT-4.
The researcher said he didn't know anything about the chip, but through 124 conversations with GPT-4, he managed to design it"Unprecedented"of chips.
Many people say that once China masters this technology, it may be able to quickly catch up with the top level abroad in the chip industry.
In fact, this problem may not be as complicated as you think, and some time ago the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other units did similar work.
According to **, researchers used artificial intelligence technology to design the world's first CPU chip - Tus-1, which is fully automated without human intervention, the chip is based on the 32-bit RISC-V architecture, using a 65nm process, with a frequency of 300MHz, and the performance is comparable to the Intel 486 series, which can run the Linux operating system.
Compared to the 8-bit accumulator microprocessor designed by researchers at New York University using GPT-4, its performance is completely out of the same class.
According to **, there is no human intervention in the chip design process, and the researchers rely entirely on the BSD binary guessing graph algorithm, which only needs to input the input and output (IO) of the test case, and then the artificial intelligence can design the chip in 5 hours.
Experts said that although the performance of this chip is still relatively poor and cannot be compared with the top CPUs, as long as artificial intelligence is continuously trained and technical paths are constantly explored, the CPU automatically generated by artificial intelligence should reach or even exceed the level of CPUs designed by human experts within 5 to 10 years.
In other words, in another 5 to 10 years, the chip design will not need human involvement, and maybe the chip design will be done by artificial intelligence in the future
But we don't have to be too shocked, because from the current point of view, artificial intelligence is more related to chip design, and in terms of chip design, the domestic level is basically equivalent to the world's top level.
Therefore, in general, artificial intelligence cannot improve the level of the domestic chip industry at present, after all, we are lagging behind mainly in the manufacturing industry, and the manufacturing industry cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence, and various types of equipment are needed, etc., so we still have to work hard to provide the level of manufacturing.