Engineering

Two years ago I turned down verification without a second thought. Now it’s one of the things I talk about most. AI can explore a design space — but only once someone has drawn the boundary, and verification is the only executable way an architect gets design intent across.

The hardest part of chip architecture was never mastering some arcane secret — it’s deciding what to do and what not to do under real constraints. The question is how to design a computer that can actually be used at scale, not a machine that only works with the most advanced process node, the deepest pockets, and the most specialized team.