Is AI Becoming Part of Its Own Supply Chain?

AI is already helping to build the next generation of AI models. But it’s also moving further down the stack, into the machines building the chips they run on.

In May, NVIDIA announced that TSMC is using vision AI to improve defect inspection inside its semiconductor fabs. And Samsung is building entire digital twins of its semiconductor factories to identify anomalies and predict maintenance problems before changes are made in the real world.

So, AI isn’t just helping to build better AI. It’s starting to monitor the physical machines that make it possible.

AI Is Already Inside the Chip Factory

Semiconductor manufacturing produces a ridiculous amount of data. NVIDIA says TSMC is dealing with hundreds of thousands of process parameters across thousands of manufacturing steps.

So, it’s not surprising that chipmakers are turning to AI.

TSMC is using NVIDIA’s Metropolis platform and TAO Toolkit for automated defect inspection. NVIDIA says...

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