Cadence launches AI agent to speed up computer chip design

Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial ‍intelligence “agent” to help firms like Nvidia speed up the complex process of designing computer ⁠chips, a key front in the technology competition between the U.S. and China.

Cadence sells key tools for designing complex chips with tens of billions of transistors. Before ‌those chips ‌become physical silicon, engineers describe the circuit using a code-like language.