Microsoft: Synopsys trained the system on huge troves of data it has accumulated over decades in business to help with that. Shankar Krishnamoorthy, general manager of the design automation group at Synopsys, said the primary objective was to make the system accurate.
Chip design is one of the hardest tasks in the technology industry because billions of transistors - tiny on-off switches - must be precisely arranged on a piece of silicon just a few centimeters wide.
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