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Building upon this legacy, DeepMind has introduced Alpha Chip, a revolutionary approach to computer chip design. While it may not have garnered as much media attention as AlphaGo, Alpha Chip promises to drastically change how chips are built—paving the way for faster, more energy-efficient, and more sophisticated hardware.
Alpha Chip approaches chip floor planning by treating the design process as a game. It starts with a blank grid and places one circuit component at a time. Each placement is evaluated, and the system receives rewards based on the quality of the final layout. This reinforcement learning paradigm enables Alpha Chip to iteratively improve its designs, learning from each layout it creates.