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The Magic of Agentic AI Will Come From a Holistic Approach to Chip Design
Interview on agentic AI in chip design. Most agentic tools today optimise existing flows; larger gains come from treating design, synthesis, verification and layout as one system, which some large technology companies already do in-house. New EDA start-ups aiming at step-function improvements need investors prepared to fund them.
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What is the EDA problem worth solving with AI?
Most AI work in EDA speeds up what engineers already do. This article looks at the positions of the large EDA vendors, the agentic start-ups and the in-house teams at large chip companies, and proposes foundation models specialised with formal and domain structure, open APIs and serious collaboration between industry and universities.
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Maintaining Momentum When the Tide Turns