SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM
SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM
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SemiKong is the world's first open-source semiconductor-focused LLM
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That is without a doubt the single most stupid thing I've heard this entire week
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Why? I got my wife a SemiKong and she loves it.
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the semiconductor industry desperately needs to collect expert information. Many aging experts are retiring and taking their knowledge with them
So let's feed their knowledge to a Large Language Model, instead of building a knowledge base.
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I love when it is clear that writer just copied and pasted a press release from a company with very little rewriting.
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Automating hardware bugs, etc? An LLM is absolutely not the right tool for nanometer scale physics
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Why do you say that?
I mean my intuition would tend to agree with you, but if it works... I could believe it.
So I'm just wondering why you would assert that this is a bad idea? What don't I know?
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SemiKong advertises a 20-30% reduction in time to market for new chip designs and a 20% improvement in first-time-right manufacturing scores.
Oh yeah? How is that accomplished when it can take a decade of development to get a new CPU out the door? Was this developed a decade ago?
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I mean ... the kind of CPUs that take this much are probably unnecessary for many things. One can run quests, something like Doom, something like SW: Rebellion and SW: X-Wing Alliance on hardware from simpler times. One can also, surprisingly but not, do office tasks and listen to music on the same hardware. One can even render things like Babylon 5 computer-made parts on it. I would love to live in such a world. Also with modern processes and voltages such hardware could probably be insanely energy-efficient as compared to what we commonly use.
That said, I can understand machine generation and optimization of chip designs, and machine checking of them. Something they already do, I'm certain.
But what the hell would an LLM contribute there, seems unclear for me.
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Please explain.