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Vinod Dham, father of the Pentium, takes on AI chips with agent-based AlphaICs

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Everybody is taking a stab at designing artificial intelligence processors, or electronic chips that could become the brains of computers that act as if they were humans. The latest to tackle the task of designing AI chips is Vinod Dham, a former Intel executive known as the "father of the Pentium." He has teamed up with some younger chip designers to build RAP chips, or real AI processors. At AlphaICs, the team is creating a coprocessor chip that can do agent-based artificial intelligence. These RAP chips could one day be deployed in computing devices and autonomous cars to make decisions at lightning speeds, or in data centers on a massive scale.