Germany and the Netherlands put €40M into using AI to design AI chips
The Netherlands’ newest government agency is now one month old and has already made its first move by deciding to use AI in the design of the chips that power AI.
On Wednesday, the National Agency for Disruptive Innovation (NADI) and Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) announced that they would commit €40 million over 20 months to small teams aiming to speed up chip design, Reuters reported.
The Chip Design Challenge organized by SPRIND has two stages and is aimed at the design of chips for both training and inference, which is the running of trained models.
The objective is to reduce development cycles from years to weeks, a goal which Jano Costard, head of challenges at SPRIND, described as “several orders of magnitude acceleration”.
Jelle Prins, one of NADI’s co-founders, argued against the current company. According to him, Nvidia chips may be powerful but are inefficient...
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