CogniChip Builds ACI Platform to Automate Semiconductor Design Work

CogniChip is building an AI laboratory focused specifically on semiconductors rather than general intelligence. The company calls the approach ACI, or “artificial chip intelligence,” and combines mathematicians and physicists with chip designers who have 20–30 years of experience.

The company says its chip specialists have completed hundreds of tape-outs. Software specialists are turning that expertise into an enterprise product intended to help chip designers complete projects faster.

Alahi estimates that models can now perform work occupying about 90% of engineers’ time in the chip industry. He argues that automating those tasks could allow engineers to focus on new products, markets, and capabilities, although the evidence does not establish how fully the models can handle such work in production projects.