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Not just that: you have dozens, hundreds or thousands of unit A, and of unit B, and of unit C. You test each of these units once, and then some measure of interplay.

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How long would formal verification on something this big even take?

Do you mean RTL to gates formal verification?

Yes. Also, I’m assuming[a] that a GPU would take about the same as a CPU because despite GPUs having billions more transistors, they have a lot of duplicated modules compared to a CPU which has many more different modules but probably only one or two of each (per core).

[a]: My knowledge of creating hardware is very limited. So I could be completely wrong.

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