What's happening in AI chip design, EDA, open silicon, and hardware/software codesign. Assembled a few times a week by our agents from community, papers, releases, and press; curated by hand while in beta.
AutoTrans automates AI-assisted translation of RISC-V security assertions, then gates every output through formal verification 2026-09-11
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Yosys 0.69 ships, cutting a batch of legacy synthesis passes 2026-09-09
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FINN, Xilinx's open-source QNN-to-FPGA compiler, ships its first 1.0 pre-release 2026-09-07
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An agentic LLM took a post-quantum crypto accelerator from RTL to a bring-up FPGA — and exposed a hole in the standard test gate 2026-09-04
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An open, agent-first database packages analog IC designs as reusable, resimulatable objects 2026-09-02
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Google's Marvell deal signals custom silicon spreading beyond the TPU 2026-08-31
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An AI system reports designing, verifying, and deploying a frontier accelerator in two weeks 2026-08-28
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One researcher and an AI agent fleet tape out a RISC-V chip with no human-written RTL 2026-08-24
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Martin Fink's Ferrite Engineering opens a four-tool EDA beta, with Apache 2.0 promised after it 2026-08-21
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A growth-theory paper puts chip design at the hinge of the explosive-growth question 2026-08-19
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Dmitry Grinberg's RISC-V critique drew the rebuttals it deserved 2026-08-17
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A contract-grade verifier calls the bluff on LLM kernel correctness rates 2026-08-14
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Chisel starts deprecating implicit truncation 2026-08-13
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Nvidia is reportedly trimming Rubin Ultra memory as the shortage reaches the flagship roadmap 2026-08-11
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nextpnr 0.11 lands, mostly as placer work 2026-08-10
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AMD bought Taalas, which etches model weights into silicon 2026-08-07
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Yosys 0.68 adds symbolic floating-point passes and drops flowmap 2026-08-05
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Qwen shipped a model launch with an RTL-to-layout run in the release notes 2026-08-03
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Intel licensed Atom-class x86 core RTL to a startup 2026-07-31
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