Silicon figures are company-reported projections calibrated from FPGA measurements, not measured silicon.
Development
Custom silicon falls from $725 million to two people and a machine
Claim
With a 2-nanometer chip's design cost put at roughly $725 million, only 14% of chip projects reaching first-silicon success and three-quarters running late, Redwood was specified by two people and designed by a machine — and projected onto an older process runs the same model at 49 tokens per second against a comparable part's 28, at half the power.
Reported metric: $725M vs two people
Reporting date: (not necessarily the event date)
Sources
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- The First AI Chip Designed End-to-End by AI (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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