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The semiconductor industry is vital to the global economy and technology landscape — promoting economic expansion, employment opportunities, and worldwide competitiveness in manufacturing, R&D, design, and associated fields. Here we showcase the latest progress in this field, and discuss its broad implications.
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By Stelios Diamantidis
Chip Design at 10x Speed: Shifting Semiconductor Economics
By Leela Najafi
10 Days. 220+ Students. 750,000 Lines of RTL – Inside Cognichip's Global AI Hardware Hackathons
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61 Hours: Inside Our First "Cognichip Innovators" AI-Enabled Chip Design Hackathon
By Igor Ignatov
Cognichip: Building Security Excellence from Day One
By Simon Sabato
Is AI Going To Take All Our Jobs?
By Faraj Aalaei
Introducing Cognichip: Artificial Chip Intelligence ACI™ to Power the Future of Semiconductor Design
By Faraj Aalaei
Unbottling the bottlenecks: AI, parallel development, and modularization
By Faraj Aalaei
Semiconductors: From a Run to a Walk to a Crawl?
By Faraj Aalaei
Semiconductors: An Industry at the Precipice
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September 24, 2026
Move Over, HAL. New AI Thinks Like a Chip Designer
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September 15, 2026
Faraj Aalaei comments on ‘Anthropic, OpenAI Safety Push Risks ‘Regulatory Wall’ for Rivals’
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September 14, 2026
Cognichip Creates Physics-Informed AI Models To Speed Chip Design
September 14, 2026
Cognichip Unveils ACI Enterprise, AI Infrastructure for Chip Design
Just released —September 14, 2026
Cognichip Launches ACI Enterprise: Industry's First Full-Stack Intelligence Infrastructure for Chip Design
June 24, 2026
Faraj Aalaei, Cognichip | theCUBE + NYSE Wired: AI Factories - Data Centers of the Future
June 12, 2026
Cognichip Achieves SOC 2 Type II Compliance
May 10, 2026
Cognichip CEO Explains the New AI Race Happening Inside Semiconductor Design on Tech Talks Daily
May 4, 2026
Good Disruption: Episode 34 - Disruptor: Faraj Aalaei, Cognichip
April 1, 2026
Cognichip Raises $60M Series A to Rebuild Chip Design Around AI
April 1, 2026
Seligman Ventures Leads Cognichip's $60M Series A to Back Physics-Informed AI for Chip Design, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Seligman Ventures' Umesh Padval Join the Board
March 24, 2026
Cognichip Named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026
October 15, 2025
Stelios Diamantidis, CPO of Cognichip, on the Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Oct 9th, 2025
Cognichip Announces Opening of Toronto Office to Tap Into World-Class AI Research and Talent From Top Universities
Sept 2, 2025
Cognichip's 'Artificial Chip Intelligence ACI™' Will Rely On Data
Aug 14, 2025
Cognichip Brings on Systems Intelligence Expert Professor Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani as Scientific Advisor
July 25, 2025
Cognichip welcomes Amin Saberi, Stanford Professor and Director of Language, Data, and Reasoning Lab, as AI Science Advisor
July 15th, 2025
Cognichip: Using AI To Speed Complex Chip Design
May 16, 2025
Cognichip raises $33m for AI-powered chip design
May 16, 2025
Cognichip Raises $33M in Seed Funding
May 15, 2025
Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips
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May 15, 2025
Cognichip Launches out of Stealth with $33M in Seed Funding to Deliver Artificial Chip Intelligence ACI™
May 15, 2025
Cognichip raises $33M to speed up chip development with AI
May 15, 2025
Cognichip Emerges from Stealth with $33M to Launch "Artificial Chip Intelligence ACI™" and Reinvent Semiconductor Design