Not that we should be at all surprised, but Nvidia leans on AI pretty hard for speeding up how it plans and designs its next generation of GPUs

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Subscribe to our newsletter Jeff Dean and Bill Dally, Advancing to AI's next Frontier, Nvidia GTC 2026 - YouTube Watch On For more than 16 years, Nvidia's annual GTC event has been packed full with talks and presentations about all the things you can do with a GPU beyond rendering 3D graphics.

This year's conference was no different, of course, but hidden amongst all the talk was an insight into how Nvidia goes about designing its chips, and AI is naturally a big part of it all.It was Bill Dally, Nvidia's chief scientist, who let us in on this behind-the-scenes glimpse, whilst chatting with his equivalent at Google, Jeff Dean, on the topic of 'advancing to AI's next frontier'.

The first bit that caught my attention (thanks to Bearly AI on X) was how Nvidia uses an AI agent when it switches to a new process node."Every time we have a new semiconductor process, we have to port our standard cell library to it.

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It's about 2,500 - 3,000 cells ## Editor's Note What do you think about this news? Share your thoughts below! Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/graphics-cards/not-that-we-should-be-at-all-surprised-but-nvidia-leans-on-ai-pretty-hard-for-speeding-up-how-it-plans-and-designs-its-next-generation-of-gpus/)