[HN Gopher] Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A "Breakthrough in Computati...
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       Nvidia Unveils CuLitho: A "Breakthrough in Computational
       Lithography"
        
       Author : oumua_don17
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-03-25 10:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | highwaylights wrote:
       | It's a good thing that all these new rapidly improving generative
       | models we've built aren't able to do something as crazy like use
       | the _exact same hardware_ we 're running them on to design better
       | hardware for themselves.
       | 
       |  _nervously laughs in Schwarzenegger_
        
       | rowanG077 wrote:
       | This seems to simply be an implementation of the algorithm on the
       | GPU. I'm not saying it isn't worth doing that. But a
       | breakthrough? I wouldn't call it that.
       | 
       | This won't allow faster chips. It's only a time saver.
        
       | nemo44x wrote:
       | Culitho means "ass" In Spanish.
        
       | copperx wrote:
       | I'd bet my house over a donut that a Spanish-speaking employee at
       | Nvidia came up with that name.
       | 
       | As my friend put it: "hmm, CuLitho de envidia."
        
         | canadianfella wrote:
         | [dead]
        
         | Insanity wrote:
         | My immediate thought was that they should have run this past
         | any Spanish speaker in the company lol
        
           | kraussvonespy wrote:
           | culitho may have been the only remaining trademark-able word
           | left in the English language.
        
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