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The final chip layout sent to TSMC is represented as a bitmap-like GDS2 file that specifies the placement of metal layers and individual transistors.
Walter Goodwin · Frontier Chips for Frontier AI Labs, with Walter Goodwin, Founder/CEO of Fractile · 2 Oct 2026
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“There's literally a kind of bitmap, you know, we have this file type you call GDS2,”
“and it's literally,”
“you know, where do I put the metal layers?”
“Where do I put each individual transistor?”
“And so it's a full layout.”6:31Report a misattribution
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