{"slug": "ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones", "title": "AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones", "summary": "Princeton researcher Kaushik Sengupta has developed an AI that designs radio-frequency chips from scratch without human templates, producing unconventional layouts resembling QR codes that outperform human-designed chips. The work, published in IEEE Spectrum, challenges the traditional hand-crafted approach to RFIC design.", "body_md": "Radio-frequency chips — the parts in every phone, car radar, and satellite link that send and receive signals — have stayed a hand-crafted \"dark art,\" mastered over years, even as CPUs and GPUs got designed by algorithm. [Writing in IEEE Spectrum](https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-radio-chip-design), Princeton's Kaushik Sengupta describes teaching AI to design these RFICs from scratch, with no human templates — and the results look nothing like human work. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/06/24/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.html)\n\nThe post [AI-designed radio chips look like QR codes and beat human ones](https://boingboing.net/2026/06/24/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/06/24/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.html", "published_at": "2026-06-24 17:41:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 18:16:04.465128+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Kaushik Sengupta", "Princeton", "IEEE Spectrum", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-designed-radio-chips-look-like-qr-codes-and-beat-human-ones.jsonld"}}