AI Agent Designs a RISC-V CPU Core From Scratch

An AI system has successfully designed a functioning computer chip from scratch by following the same step-by-step process that human engineers use—design, build, test, refine—rather than having different AI tools handle isolated pieces of the work. The breakthrough shows that giving AI a structured workflow to follow produces better results than having it tackle fragmented tasks, and the resulting chip performs similarly to laptops from around 2011. This matters because it suggests AI could eventually accelerate chip design, potentially speeding up the development of faster computers and the technology inside them.