From CNET: You probably know that Apple, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung and just about anybody else who makes processors is stuffing their products with circuitry to accelerate AI tasks. What you might not know is that AI is also being used to accelerate the design of those very processors.
Case in point: Intel. The Santa Clara, California-based company plans to detail its new Meteor Lake processors on Thursday, products it hopes will transform laptops into what it calls "AI PCs." But Intel also used AI to create those processors.
AI tools catch bugs early in the design process so chips come to market faster, and they oversee manufacturing so more of the tiny slices of silicon that Intel makes end up inside products instead of in the trash can. For Meteor Lake, Intel's first major processor made of multiple "chiplets" stacked into one package, the AI tools help find the best way to sell each processor given a multitude of slight differences in each processor's components.
With these AI tools, "the amount of sellable units is increasing significantly," Shlomit Weiss, a co-leader of Intel's Design Engineering Group, said in an exclusive interview.
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