AI Chip Design Week
Discover where AI is innovating in chipmaking and EDA at Tom's Hardware Premium AI Chip Design Week, from September 28th to October 2nd. Here you will find free in-depth reporting and analysis on the current state of AI in the chip design ecosystem, from Premium News to interviews with OpenAI, and much more.
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By Sayem Ahmed Published
Premium This week on Tom's Hardware Premium, we open the floodgates with a free-to-access chip design week, including expert interviews, a sit-down with OpenAI on its custom ASIC, and much more.

By Jon Martindale Published
Premium Amazon and Synopsys team up.

By Jake Roach Published
OpenAI chose to pair rack-scale deployments of its Jalapeño ASIC with AMD EPYC Turin CPUs, not the wave of high-performance agentic chips like Arm’s AGI or Nvidia’s Vera.

By Chris Stokel-Walker Published
Premium Can AI outsmart the ingenuity of human thinking and design? If so, what does that mean for proprietary IP? We explore the tools, and the potential pitfalls.

By Shane Downing Published
Premium Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens all offer agentic AI for chip design, largely built on Nvidia's stack, with varying claims of autonomy.

By Jake Roach Published
OpenAI says AI-assisted Jalapeño chip design "established a new baseline" for the industry, and there is already a lot of interest from others to learn how the company pulled it off.

By Anton Shilov Published
Premium How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.

By Shane Downing Published
Premium Synopsys unveiled seven AgentEngineer agents on its new Autopilot platform, with general availability planned for the end of 2026.

By Jake Roach Published
OpenAI has danced with the idea of a broader rollout of its Jalapeño ASIC, but hardware VP Richard Ho tells us the chip is for internal use “first and foremost.”
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