{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Built This Week","title":"Physics Simulation for Chip Design Used to Take Days. This AI Does It in Seconds.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1813,"description":"This week we sat down with Hardik Kabaria, co-founder and CEO of Vinci, to demo the AI platform making physics simulation accessible to any engineer building hardware. A chip tape-out used to cost millions of dollars and take months. Thermal analysis that should take seconds was waiting days for a specialist with a PhD. Vinci is compressing all of that into minutes — and making it accessible to anyone on the design team, not just the simulation expert.We also got into why AI image and video generation still has not produced a Netflix movie, what has to change before it does, and how AI getting into hardware design raises the stakes around IP and watermarking in ways nobody is talking about yet.\n\nWe cover:\nWhat Vinci does — making physics simulation accessible to anyone building hardware\nWhy a chip tape-out costs millions and takes months and how AI is compressing that cycle\nHow Vinci lets engineers get thermal and physics answers in seconds instead of days\nThe existing workflow — designers, performance evaluators, and manufacturers rarely even work in the same team\nHow simulation software went from requiring PhDs to something any engineer can access\nThe digital twin concept — running physics experiments in software before touching physical prototypes\nWhy the semiconductor and data center cooling market is the starting point\nNews — AI image and video generation still has not crossed the quality schism\nWhy there are no AI-generated movies on Netflix yet even though the models exist\nHow AI getting into hardware design changes the stakes around IP and watermarking\nThe parallel between language models democratizing reasoning and physics models democratizing simulation\n\nIf you are building hardware, working in semiconductors, or want to understand where AI is going beyond software, this episode is for you.\n\nFind Hardik:\nLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hardikkabaria\nTwitter: x.com/hardikk13\n\nFind Vinci:\nWebsite: getvinci.ai\nLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/vinciphysics\nCompany...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DcxLgyo52OTPB6vLXk0DQx0p7_qs5hQqaceutObHZhA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZTY4/Nzk5NDcxMDdmNGIx/N2MzYzQzY2M2NWE2/MDAxMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}