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📣 mikewarot

Moore's Law and chip design, what next?


Now that we have TinyTapeout, and the design and development of small custom chips is within the grasp of almost anyone, what new directions do you think chip design will take?


  👤 JonChesterfield Accepted Answer ✓
I'm interested in the collection of small cooperating chips on a common fabric approach. Essentially the chiplet work being done by AMD, which seems to have some options for third party silicon running on the same fabric.

I suspect, but do not know for sure, that verilog is going to emerge as the root cause for a wide variety of cost and error problems in silicon design. I'm therefore interested in non-verilog approaches to describing chips, but only at the casual / hobby level for now.