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TSMC is using AI software from Cadence and Synopsys to design energy-efficient AI chips.

TSMC rolled out a new AI-based chip design method on Wednesday in Silicon Valley, aiming to cut the power demands of AI chips by up to ￰0￱ company, which manufactures chips for Nvidia and other tech giants, says this change is necessary as current systems burn too much ￰1￱ full load, Nvidia’s AI servers can use up to 1,200 watts, the same as keeping 1,000 ￰2￱ running ￰3￱ kind of energy drain isn’t sustainable, and TSMC is reportedly trying to fix it with smarter ￰4￱ approach revolves around building chips with smaller pieces called chiplets, each made with different tech, all packaged into ￰5￱ it’s not just about throwing pieces ￰6￱ new packages are being designed by AI software from firms like Cadence Design Systems and Synopsys, not by engineers ￰7￱ and Synopsys beat engineers on speed and accuracy Jim Chang, deputy director at TSMC’s 3DIC Methodology Group, showed off the ￰8￱ Cadence and Synopsys software, chip designs that once took two days of human effort were finished by AI in five minutes.

“That helps to max out TSMC technology’s capability, and we find this is very useful,” Jim said during his ￰9￱ company sees this speed boost as key to getting more efficient chips to market ￰10￱ not every problem can be solved with smarter ￰11￱ Veeraraghavan, an engineer at Meta’s infrastructure division, said during his keynote that the current chip manufacturing model is hitting physical ￰12￱ data in and out of chips with traditional wires is slowing things ￰13￱ to optical connections could fix that, but right now, they’re still too unreliable for large data centers. “Really, this is not an engineering problem,” Kaushik said . “It’s a fundamental physical problem.” At the same event, Qualcomm launched a new set of chips, including one aimed squarely at business ￰14￱ flagship, Snapdragon X2 Elite, is expected to ship next year with a new security feature called ￰15￱ pushes Guardian to compete in the business PC market Kedar Kondap, senior vice president of gaming and compute at Qualcomm, explained how Guardian ￰16￱ feature lets IT teams remotely connect to a laptop, even if it’s off, to push updates or give ￰17￱ kind of remote access has existed before, but Qualcomm plans to pair it with their 5G modem ￰18￱ means companies could locate and manage laptops as long as they have a mobile signal.

“Nobody else can offer something like that,” said Ben Bajarin, chief executive of Creative Strategies. “I can actually see that being attractive for a portion of the workforce and something that will get stronger interest in Qualcomm for enterprise fleets.” Qualcomm has been trying to grab a piece of the PC market for two years now, competing with Apple and Intel by offering energy-saving chips for Windows ￰19￱ still holds most of the corporate PC share and already had similar remote features, but Qualcomm’s wireless integration might give it an edge with businesses managing devices on the ￰20￱ Difference Wire : the secret tool crypto projects use to get guaranteed media coverage

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