Oh, *Wonderful*. Another AI Startup.

Right, so some folks – a bunch of women, apparently that’s important to shout about these days – have started a semiconductor company called Sixsense. They’re building AI chips… because everything needs AI slapped on it now, don’t it? They claim they can optimize chip design *during* manufacturing, which is supposed to be faster and cheaper than doing things the normal way. Like we haven’t heard that song and dance before.

They’ve snagged $20 million in Series A funding led by Eclipse Ventures, with a bunch of other VC types throwing money at it too. Apparently, this is supposed to solve the “complexity” of modern chipmaking. Newsflash: complexity *is* modern chipmaking. You deal with it.

The whole thing revolves around some “digital twin” and machine learning algorithms that are going to magically predict defects or something. Look, I’ve seen enough silicon fail to know that no algorithm is replacing good old-fashioned testing and a healthy dose of luck. They’re aiming for automotive, aerospace, and defense – because those industries have *loads* of spare cash and tolerance for vaporware.

Bottom line? More hype, more money flowing into the AI black hole, and another company promising to revolutionize something that doesn’t need revolutionizing. I give it eighteen months before they pivot to “AI-powered artisanal toast.”

Don’t ask me why I bother summarizing this garbage.

Source: TechCrunch (because you probably won’t believe me)

Speaking of defects, I once had to debug a system where the entire problem was traced back to a single flipped bit in the ROM. A *single* bit. Took three days and a team of engineers to find it. And some bright spark suggested we use AI to predict future failures. I nearly throttled him. Just fix the damn hardware, people!

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