Nvidia says it is deploying Vera CPUs in chip-design workflows with Cadence and Synopsys tools, aiming to speed verification and tapeout work.

Wired reports that AI is lowering the barrier to chip design and software optimization, with startups envisioning a broad democratization of chipmaking.

Nvidia reports that AI has compressed a 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to a single overnight job, though full autonomous chip design remains distant.