Google’s AI Just Found a Loophole in Physics. Chipmakers Are Terrified.
Google DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve applied evolutionary AI to discover algorithms that bypass brute-force computational lithography, achieving a 680% speedup in semiconductor manufacturing without changing hardware. This breakthrough shifts the bottleneck from multi-billion-dollar fabs to software innovation, proving that the future of Moore’s Law depends on algorithmic intelligence, not exotic machines.