Field Notes
An executive panel moderated by Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering on how agentic AI is changing chip design and verification, with panelists from Breker, ChipAgents, Moores Lab AI, Silimate, Silvaco, and Verific. It left us thinking about how teams will audit what agentic systems produce.
Four days in Long Beach where the industry conversation about AI in the design flow has moved from whether to how.
Two days of ambitious academic work on LLM-aided design from university groups around the world, a community we are glad to be learning from.
Two days at Berkeley RDI on the state of agentic systems, from current research through what teams are deploying today.
Upcoming
Hot Chips has been our favorite industry show to attend these last few years. The bleeding edge shows up here first: the people who built the silicon walk through it themselves, a full cycle before it reaches the rest of the industry.
An unexamined handoff is not worth trusting.