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Comment by lobochrome | Hacker News Reader

Agreed, in particular on #2

Given infinite time and compute - maybe the approach is significantly better. But that’s just not practical. So unless you see dramatic shifts - no one is going to throw away proven results on your new approach because of the TTM penalty if it goes wrong.

The EDA industry is (has to be) ultra conservative.

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    > The EDA industry is (has to be) ultra conservative.

What is special about EDA that requires it to be more conservative?

Taping out a chip is an incredibly expensive (7-8 figure) fixed cost. If the chips that come out have too many bugs (say because your PD tools missed up some wiring for 1 in 10,000 blocks) then that money is gone. If you're Intel this is enough to make people doubt the health of your firm; if you're a startup, you're just done.

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