AI Chips Built by AI - Promise or Reality?: An Industry Perspective

Artificial Intelligence is an avenue to innovation that is touching every industry worldwide. AI has made rapid advances in areas like speech and image recognition, gaming, and even self-driving cars, essentially automating less complex human tasks. In turn, this demand drives rapid growth across the semiconductor industry with new chip architectures emerging to deliver the specialized processing needed for the huge breadth of AI applications. Given the advances made to automate simple human tasks, can AI solve more complex tasks such as designing a computer chip? In this talk, we will discuss the challenges and opportunities of building advanced chip designs with the help of artificial intelligence, enabling higher performance, faster time to market, and utilizing reuse of machine-generated learning for successive products.