by Karl Freund | Aug 3, 2026 | In the News
A few months ago I wrote an article on Forbes about Cadence Design SuperAgents that front-end the company’s chip design tools to speed elements of the design workflow by up to 10X, according to the company. Now, several EDA AI startups have entered the game with...
by Karl Freund | Feb 10, 2026 | In the News
The semiconductor industry has been applying AI to accelerate chip design for over three years, achieving 10X productivity gains and focusing primarily on tasks that now seem relatively easy, such as floor-plan optimization using massive recurrent neural networks. But...
by Karl Freund | Apr 29, 2025 | In the News
The US Semiconductor industry desperately needs to rebuild the country’s ability to produce the advanced chips that are the cornerstone of AI and every electronic device you can imagine. Most of those chips are built today in Taiwan by TSMC. Merely the thought of any...
