AI is starting to out-design chip engineers in narrow areas as LLMs accelerate software chip design tool development — "There is still a lot of human guidance" says Berkley researcher
… Where Markov is most bullish is on what he calls the agentic space: the high-level orchestration of chip design flows, including deciding whether a run is doomed or whether a flow needs to be restarted entirely. “If you take a zero multiplied by something, you get a zero,” he said. “But if you alre… …