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The Software Behind Silicon

Learn about the $80 billion company that makes the software behind AI, mobile, and automotive chips. Plus: are we at the end of Moore's Law?

Ben: Obviously, for these advancements, for Moore's Law to stay true, it requires incredible collaboration between (say) TSMC to figure out how to reduce the number of atoms in between the two transistors or whatever it is that is measured as three nanometers. You need actually a whole bunch of specialized machines from anything that takes the many sensors data and compresses it or transports it and so on to ultimately the AI algorithms that can run preferably real time to drive the car. Aart: I think Sassine alluded to to one of the aspects on the technology side, which is when the relationship with the top foundries started to change, because suddenly they had touched some boundaries that they couldn't get beyond, we needed to get their information in order to be able to model what the circuits actually would be able to do.

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