AI In Chip Design: Lots Of Promise, Plenty Of Unanswered Questions

Key Takeaways: AI opens the door to exploring a much larger solution space, similar to what high-level synthesis did years ago, but questions persist about the impact of increasing reliance what is essentially a black-box chip design. There is no consistent answer to how successful AI will be, where it will succeed or fail, or how it will apply to different markets and EDA customers. It isn’t clear yet whether entry-level engineers will be left out as AI does more, or whether they will replace o