Jeff Dean says RL plus new EDA tooling could compress chip design from 2 years to 3 months
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-21
- Casper Hansen quotes Jeff Dean saying RL plus new EDA tooling could compress chip design from 2 years to 3 months — essentially a specialized auto-research loop for hardware.
- YC's Harj Taggar adds that hardware fundraising got easier this year partly because investors fear AI eating software; they'd be even more excited if AI makes hardware cheaper and faster to build.
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