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The chip-design process still includes intermediate stages that solve NP-hard problems using conventional methods.
Unresolved speaker · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“I think one of the things about chip design that is very interesting is there are still these loops in the middle of it that are kind of conventional solutions to NP-hard problems.”23:58Report a misattribution
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