The researcher behind an early LLM for chip design says buying AI alone may not determine semiconductor leadership

Mark Ren helped prove frontier AI could do real chip-design work at Nvidia. Now his startup, Agentrys, is betting that ...

Designing memory-centric chips for future space telescopes

Two proposed computer chip designs could efficiently process data on future space telescopes while they search for Earth–like ...

Greg Brockman says OpenAI's tech found chip optimizations that would've taken humans weeks

Greg Brockman says OpenAI used its own AI to design chips with Broadcom, finding optimizations that human designers would've needed weeks to spot.
Semiconductor Engineering

The Autonomous Chip-To-System Engineer Has Arrived

At Computex 2026, Cadence announced that the ChipStack AI Super Agent achieved Level-5 autonomy and will now support NVIDIA ...
Forbes

Intel Foundry And Synopsys Collaborate To Fast-Track 18A Chip Development

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In a joint announcement reflecting the growing importance of ...
MarketWatch

Tesla Shares Rise on Completion of AI5 Chip Design Process

Shares of Tesla rose after Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company had completed the final stage of the design process for its AI5 chip. Shares were up 6.8% to $388.92 in Wednesday afternoon ...
Electronic Design

Designing a Chip with Open-Source Tools: The Development of Silicluster

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” ...

Nvidia is putting its Vera CPUs to work alongside AI agents to speed up chip design

Nvidia is creating a kind of continuous feedback loop, where its current generation Vera CPUs speed up the development of ...