# Chip Loops

- **Event:** [GPT-6 Astra Hackathon NYC](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-gpt-6-astra-nyc)
- **When:** Thu, Sep 10 at 9:00 AM – 10:00 PM (EDT)
- **Where:** New York, NY
- **Team:** [Daniel Noskin](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/dnosk)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/dnosk/chip-loops
- **Demo video:** https://youtube.com/shorts/Bqopf-GEzWw
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-gpt-6-astra-nyc/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/openai-gpt-6-astra-nyc/hackathon/gallery/11

Chip Loops is an autonomous silicon research lab run by GPT-6 Astra. Five Astra researchers propose RTL optimizations, share measured results, and explore different hardware ideas while an Astra director chooses what to test next.

Every design goes through a fixed external lab: 2.6M deterministic BF16 correctness tests, Yosys synthesis, ABC timing, and OpenROAD physicalization.

Astra found a design with 33.2% lower estimated critical-path delay and 6.5% less area than our baseline. After place-and-route, it retained a 34.2% lower post-route delay.

Astra chooses what to try. Deterministic tools decide what is true.

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