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See Autonomous Chip Design in Action with ChipAgents at DAC 2026
DAC is coming to Long Beach for the first time, and AI is taking center stage. Here's every way to connect with ChipAgents at DAC 2026—live demos, technical sessions, customer presentations, and real-world engineering results.
ChipAgents Founder and CEO Wins Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Says "Believe in Young People"
William Wang, founder and CEO of ChipAgents, received the Entrepreneur of the Year award at the South Coast Business & Technology Awards—honored for building category-defining technologies, advancing the semiconductor industry, and uplifting the community.
Introducing Renoir, ChipAgents' First Model
Today, we are excited to introduce Renoir, an agentic large language model (LLM) whose name means "renew." Renoir is designed to renew what semiconductor teams can expect from AI: greater performance, lower costs, and secure on-premises deployment.
Building the Future of AI-Driven Semiconductor Design: Celebrating 2 Years of ChipAgents
ChipAgents began in a UCSB AI lab with a professor, a few students, and a 1-trillion-dollar question. Two years later, our multi-agent systems serve the top 80 semiconductor companies. Here is the story behind our journey, how the team found its mission and built its culture.
Why Chip Engineers Should Care About AI-Created Behavioral Models
Full transistor-level simulations can take weeks or months, making accurate behavioral models essential—and exhausting to build by hand. Here is an agentic AI approach that produces high-fidelity behavioral models for PLLs, ADCs, DACs, and LDOs while keeping engineers in control.
Why Agentic AI Is the Biggest Shift in Chip Design Since EDA
From CAD to EDA, every wave of automation has pushed chip design past a new complexity wall. At the 2026 GSA Tech Summit, ChipAgents CEO William Wang explained why agentic AI is the next leap—unlocking orders-of-magnitude productivity gains for verification and design teams.
One Year In: Taming the Waveform Tsunami with AI Agents
Waveform debugging is one of the hardest problems in chip verification. Modern simulations generate terabytes of trace data, where one missed signal transition can cost weeks of re-spin time. See how Waveform Agents have saved millions of debug hours in just one year.
Breaking Verification Bottlenecks: Six Tasks AI Agents Can Automate Today
Verification now consumes 60–70% of chip engineering hours. Here are six workflows where agentic AI is already delivering measurable productivity gains across ASIC, SoC, and 3D IC environments.
Come Build the Future of AI-Driven Chip Design
ChipAgents is reinventing semiconductor design through agentic AI. Here's what it's like to work here — and why now is an exciting time to join.
Celebrating a Major Milestone: ChipAgents Achieves SOC2 Compliance
We're excited to share that ChipAgents has successfully achieved SOC2 compliance, marking an important milestone in our commitment to enterprise-grade security, trust, and operational excellence.
ChipAgents RCA: Autonomous ASIC Root Cause Analysis
ChipAgents Root Cause Analysis (ChipAgents RCA) is the first Agentic AI based approach to end to end bug resolution, using error logs and waveforms, over commercial scale IPs, and across multiple categories of high complexity bugs.
Multi-Agent Debate in AI for Chip Design & Verification
Why single-agent copilots aren't enough for high-stakes silicon decisions, and how debate-style AI workflows map onto architect, RTL, DV, PPA, and DFT roles.
AI Agents for UVM: the Next Frontier
ChipAgents researchers unpack how agentic AI can tackle UVM's toughest challenges—from scarce training data to long-context planning—and where the biggest opportunities lie.
Exploring AI Agents for Accelerating Chip Design to a One-Year Tape-Out Cycle
AI agents like ChipAgents show how semiconductor teams can compress design cycles from years to months while boosting quality for AI accelerator chips.
Reflections on DVCon 2025: AI Agents Take Center Stage 🚀
Highlights from DVCon 2025, where AI-native verification tools like ChipAgents stole the show and set the pace for faster tapeouts.
How AI Agents Will Kill Traditional Chip Verification Workflows Very Soon
Why autonomous verification agents are replacing the slow, error-prone flows every chip team still depends on today.