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Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

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Introducing Build-A-Chip-Bench: From Workload Specification to GDS

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Existing chip design benchmarks test isolated steps, such as writing RTL from a specification, and are increasingly saturated.

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