AI Just Started Designing Chips By Itself — Then They Locked It In a Cage
In one week, three of the companies that build the software behind every chip on Earth — Synopsys, Cadence and Siemens — shipped AI that designs by itself, and almost nobody outside the industry noticed. Synopsys claims a verification agent up to 50× faster to a validated design; Cadence shipped an agent stack; Siemens wired…
