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ChatGPT designed a processor, and it has been successfully fabricated — demo video shows it powering a Christmas light…

Dec 23, 2023 - tomshardware.com
The QTCore-C1 chip, developed by Dr Hammond Pearce of NYU Tandon using ChatGPT, has been successfully fabricated and demonstrated in a Christmas light show. The chip, which won the inaugural Efabless Corporation AI-generated open-source silicon design contest, was designed entirely through conversations with OpenAI’s GPT-4. However, it's important to note that ChatGPT did not design the entire CPU, but translated the 'plain English' describing a chip to a Hardware Descriptor Language (HDL).

The QTCore-C1 chip is more accurately described as a co-processor, capable of basic mathematical and logic operations, interacting with input/output lines, measuring time with an internal counter, and sending and receiving values and interrupt requests to the main processor. Efabless, a creator platform for ASICs, sees potential in AI-powered chip design to expand the market.

Key takeaways:

  • The QTCore-C1 chip, created by NYU Tandon’s Dr Hammond Pearce using ChatGPT, has been successfully fabricated and demonstrated running a Christmas light show.
  • The chip was created entirely via conversations with OpenAI’s GPT-4, and every component and signal was created with GPT-4’s authorship.
  • The QTCore-C1 chip is an 8-bit accumulator-based architecture which can act as a co-processor for the main Caravel core, capable of basic mathematical and logic operations, interacting with several input/output lines, measuring time with an internal counter, and sending and receiving values and interrupt requests to the main processor.
  • Efabless Corporation, which has a strong interest in AI-powered chip design, hosted the contest where the QTCore-C1 chip won earlier this year.
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