Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/engineer-builds-a-gpu-from-scratch-in-two-weeks-process-much-harder-than-he-expected

An engineer has shared his journey in “building a GPU from scratch with no prior experience.” As with his prior project of designing a CPU from scratch, Adam Majmudar took just two weeks to complete this cerebral feat. In a Twitter/X thread Majmudar takes us through the process, step-by-step, and admits GPU designing was a much harder task than expected. To be clear, the current conclusion of the project is a chip layout in Verilog which was finally passed through OpenLane EDA software to verify it. However, the GPU is going to be submitted for tapeout via Tiny Tapeout 7 so is destined to become a physical chip in the coming months.

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