Paper · DAC 2023 / IEEE Xplore · 2023
Architecture 2.0: Challenges and Opportunities
Concise position paper framing the opportunities and community infrastructure needed for machine-learning-driven computer architecture.
Papers, posts, talks, datasets, and workshop writeups that orient the field
This is the hub's curated starting point for Architecture 2.0 references. It is not meant to replace a bibliography; it points newcomers and submitters toward the papers, essays, talks, and artifacts that explain the motivation, evidence standards, and community infrastructure around AI-assisted computer architecture.
Paper · DAC 2023 / IEEE Xplore · 2023
Concise position paper framing the opportunities and community infrastructure needed for machine-learning-driven computer architecture.
Article · IEEE Computer · 2025
Foundations article arguing why AI agents and compound AI systems matter for modern computer system design.
Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · June 14, 2023
Community-facing argument for datasets, benchmarks, leaderboards, competitions, and open infrastructure for Architecture 2.0.
Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · December 20, 2023
Writeup from the online community workshop, summarizing workstreams around datasets, algorithms, tools, best practices, workforce, and industry.
Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · February 4, 2025
A systems-oriented essay on abstractions for intelligent and compound AI systems.
Blog post · SIGARCH Computer Architecture Today · May 19, 2026
Recent SIGARCH essay connecting agentic co-design to hardware-software contracts, memory systems, and datacenter architecture.
Paper · ISCA 2023 · 2023
Open-source framework that connects search algorithms to architecture simulators for fairer, repeatable ML-assisted design-space exploration.
Paper · IEEE Computer Architecture Letters · 2025
Question-answering dataset for evaluating and improving language-model reasoning about computer architecture.
Podcast · Computer Architecture Podcast · September 3, 2024
Podcast conversation introducing Architecture 2.0 and AI for computer systems design to a broader architecture audience.
Paper · ISSCC 2020 keynote companion · 2020
Jeff Dean's broad framing of how deep learning changes hardware demand and how machine learning can begin to influence circuit and chip design.
Talk · DAC 2021 keynote · December 6, 2021
A keynote on using machine learning across hardware-design tasks, useful background for the Architecture 2.0 design-loop agenda.
Talk · NSF AI for EDA Workshop at NeurIPS 2024 · December 2024
A forward-looking talk on automating chip design across architecture choices, logic design, verification, and floorplanning.
Paper · Nature · 2021
Influential reinforcement-learning approach to chip macro placement and a concrete example of AI entering a real hardware-design loop.
Blog post · Google DeepMind · September 2024
Accessible update on AlphaChip's chip-design impact, model release, and use in Google accelerator design.
Paper · arXiv · 2021
A broad survey of machine learning as a predictive-modeling and design methodology for computer architecture and systems.
Blog post · CRA Industry · April 27, 2026
Community visioning notes on AI, specialization, hardware-design automation, and agent-managed software and systems development.
Report · NSF AI for EDA Workshop / arXiv · 2026
Workshop report summarizing AI-for-EDA needs around collaboration, foundation methods, data infrastructure, compute, verification, and workforce development.