New Thought Technology (SNPS.US) AgentEngineer's cutting-edge technology is now available, transforming AI engineers into the "most powerful brains" in chip design.

Global electronic design automation (EDA) leader Synopsys (SNPS.US) on Wednesday unveiled its groundbreaking technology AgentEngineer, marking the official entry of chip design into the new era of artificial intelligence collaboration. This innovative technology will free engineers from the tedious task of transistor arrangement and entrust the entire process from single-chip to super-large server systems to AI systems. At the annual user conference in Santa Clara, Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus unveiled the major transformation the industry is facing: leading customers such as Nvidia (NVDA.US) are no longer satisfied with traditional single-chip design and are developing AI server systems that integrate hundreds or even thousands of chips, requiring annual iteration upgrades. This explosive complexity growth has pushed traditional design models to the brink of collapse. "The new AI computer is an engineering marvel, but the design difficulty has surpassed human limits," de Geus said bluntly. "Engineers not only have to cope with the exponential growth of complexity but also meet the triple challenge of speed to market and cost control." AgentEngineer technology adopts a tiered empowerment strategy. In the initial stage, AI agents will serve as intelligent assistants for human engineers to perform specialized tasks such as circuit design verification. The long-term plan is more disruptive - AI will manage complex systems containing thousands of heterogeneous chips and components, automatically coordinating the design process to ensure project delivery on time. Shankar Krishnamurthy, vice president of development at Synopsys, emphasized in an interview: "When the R&D team's size cannot be linearly expanded, AI becomes a key lever to enhance R&D productivity." He pointed out that through intelligent allocation of computing resources and optimization of design schemes, AI can make the existing team's efficiency increase by several times, breaking through traditional human bottlenecks. The technology release coincides with a major turning point in the semiconductor industry. With the explosion of computing power demand triggered by large language models, autonomous driving, and other new technologies, traditional manual design can no longer meet the needs of annual iteration of thousands of chips. Synopsys' AI solutions essentially transform chip design from "labor-intensive" to "intelligence-driven", redefining the core value of EDA tools. For engineers, this means liberation from repetitive transistor arrangement work and focusing on architecture innovation and system optimization. As de Geus envisioned: "In the future, engineers will have intelligent design partners to tackle all challenges from a single chip to a super-system." This AI-driven EDA revolution may reshape the entire semiconductor industry's innovation speed and economic efficiency.