semiconductor design

Synopsys is pushing agentic AI for electronic design automation (EDA) beyond copilots and isolated task automation, introducing two autonomous chip-design workflows developed with Microsoft and now being evaluated by AMD. Available for evaluation through Microsoft Discovery, the workflows target...

India’s IT and electronics minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has urged the country’s software industry to move into semiconductor design and related engineering, citing what he described as a global shortage of roughly one million qualified professionals. Speaking at an industry town hall in Hyderabad...

Microsoft’s chip ambitions have hit a visible snag: the company’s next‑generation Maia family accelerator, internally codenamed Braga, has been pushed out of mass production into 2026 after a reported six‑month slip — a delay that widens the performance and timing gap with Nvidia’s dominant...

Microsoft’s much-anticipated unveiling of its Discovery platform at Build 2025 signals a pivotal moment in the ongoing reinvention of research and development for science and engineering. Over the past decade, R&D has been touched by artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and...