Young engineers using AI to help you make ASICs
Reuters reports that Architect Labs secured $24 million in seed funding to accelerate and simplify custom chip design using artificial intelligence. The company aims to reduce the typical two-year, costly process by targeting chip manufacturers and software firms needing faster, efficient custom chips. Founded by Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subedi, Architect Labs combines machine learning and hardware expertise to offer an alternative to established chip designers like Broadcom and Marvell.
It will be interesting to see if these folks can accomplish more than the AI-aided flows from Cadence and Synopsys enable designers to do. Realistically, they're not going to compete with Broadcom and Marvell, which bring leading-edge serdes to the table. Instead, they're going to serve a different class of customer.
