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TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Spotlight on Emerging Technologies

TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum 2026: Spotlight on Emerging Technologies
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-02-2026 at 8:00 am

TSMC OIP 2026 Emerging Technologies Alley

 

The TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum highlighted many accomplishments across TSMC’s vast ecosystem. Specific achievements with TSMC as well as collaborative work across several companies were all on display.

And there was an exhibit area where you could meet the companies behind many of these stories and learn more about them.… Read More


Agentic AI Is Reshaping Semiconductor Design

Agentic AI Is Reshaping Semiconductor Design
by Daniel Nenni on 09-21-2026 at 10:00 am

ChipAgents DAC2026

Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from an experimental aid to a foundational part of semiconductor engineering. In a recent industry talk, leaders from ChipAgents and Analog Devices described how agentic AI could help chipmakers manage soaring design complexity, accelerate product development, and improve the … Read More


Webinar – ChipAgents Shows You How to Break the Timing Closure Bottleneck with AI

Webinar – ChipAgents Shows You How to Break the Timing Closure Bottleneck with AI
by Mike Gianfagna on 09-10-2026 at 6:00 am

Webinar – ChipAgents Shows You How to Break the Timing Closure Bottleneck with AI

We all know timing closure is one of the most challenging processes in chip design. Extracting actionable insight from massive timing reports, tracing violations back to RTL, and selecting the right fix across complex PPA tradeoffs all require deep expertise. And every change can trigger hours or days of tool runs and cross-team… Read More


How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects

How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects
by Daniel Nenni on 09-01-2026 at 2:00 pm

How Agentic AI Turns IC Engineers into Architects

There is an interesting article by Kexun ZHang of ChipAgents on their blogsite. This is a company to watch, absolutely.  Here is my take on it:

Software engineering has already demonstrated the trajectory of agentic AI. Coding tools progressed from autocomplete to systems that interpret requests, inspect repositories, modify… Read More


ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-17-2026 at 6:00 am

ChipAgents Leads the AI Revolution at DAC 2026

I believe this year’s DAC will be viewed as the time and place where EDA experienced a major shift. That is, the shift from the value of tools and methodology to the value of agentic design flows powered by highly trained agents. The design community will clearly need the tools and methodologies that have occupied DAC for years. But… Read More


NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA

NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA
by Daniel Nenni on 08-10-2026 at 2:00 pm

NVIDIA Brings Agentic AI Toolkit to EDA

NVIDIA’s expansion of the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with PhysicsNeMo and CUDA-X libraries marks a shift from general-purpose AI assistants toward autonomous engineering systems. Instead of limiting agents to document retrieval, code generation, or workflow automation, the expanded toolkit lets developers connect reasoning… Read More


ChipAgent Raises $134Million and Why it Matters

ChipAgent Raises $134Million and Why it Matters
by Daniel Nenni on 08-09-2026 at 10:00 am

ChipAgents Funding Round SemiWiki

In my 45 years experience in the semiconductor industry, 43 of that in EDA and IP, I have never seen such a meteoric rise of an EDA company. I do remember money being raised for EDA in the early days but never have I seen such a customer success in such a short amount of time.

I first met ChipAgents at DVCon Silicon Valley in 2025. It was an … Read More


Rethinking Formal Verification in the AI Era

Rethinking Formal Verification in the AI Era
by Admin on 07-27-2026 at 10:00 am

AI driven formal verification

By Kanav Arora, ML Researcher at ChipAgents

Most hardware teams already understand why formal verification matters. It can expose corner cases that simulation may never reach and establish critical behaviors across the modeled state space.

The unresolved question is not whether formal works. It is why formal remains a specialist… Read More


Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into Minutes

Whalechip Uses ChipAgents to Compress Root Cause Analysis into Minutes
by Daniel Nenni on 07-21-2026 at 6:00 am

ChipAgent Whale

AI-powered platform identified four critical SoC bugs and helped prevent up to two weeks of potential development delays

Semiconductor verification is increasingly constrained not by simulation capacity, but by the engineering effort required to understand why a simulation failed. Modern ASIC and system-on-chip designs… Read More


See Autonomous Chip Design in Action with ChipAgents at DAC 2026

See Autonomous Chip Design in Action with ChipAgents at DAC 2026
by Daniel Nenni on 07-07-2026 at 2:00 pm

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Making the AI wave at DAC 2026 in Long Beach

DAC comes to Long Beach for the first time in 2026, with artificial intelligence expected to be one of the central topics across the conference program and exhibition floor.

For semiconductor design and verification teams, the discussion has moved beyond whether AI can assist engineers.… Read More