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After the Agentrys webinar, SemiWiki's Moh Kolb examines how agentic chip design is moving beyond isolated copilots toward long-running, spec-to-GDS engineering workflows — and what such systems must prove before engineers trust them for tapeout.

SemiWiki's Daniel Nenni talks with Agentrys founder and CEO Mark Ren about how AI agents are transforming chip design — including the fully automated agentic flow Agentrys brought to Hot Chips 2026 that cut power 28%, boosted performance 40%, and reduced area 10% on an open-source design, and solved real attendee design problems live at the booth.

SemiWiki's Mike Gianfagna follows the money as Agentrys raises $24.5 million, led by Etna Labs with MediaTek as its first strategic backer, to build Agentic Design Automation — targeted agentic design flows that get better with every run.

Axios Pro reports exclusively that Agentrys, a chip design startup led by NVIDIA alumni, has raised $24.5 million — CEO Mark Ren on why chip design is essential in the age of AI, yet much of the work still depends on manual engineering.

Agentrys has raised $24.5 million — an oversubscribed $19.1 million seed led by Etna Labs, following a $5.4 million pre-seed led by MediaTek — to build Agentic Design Automation (ADA) that lets engineering teams build and own a self-improving agentic workforce for chip design. The funding goes toward recruiting, agent-native tooling, and expanding customer engagements across verification and physical design.

A purpose-built multi-agent system for chip design shouldn't be a quarter-long project. SemiWiki previews how Agentrys Studio builds an initial agentic flow in about 30 minutes — shown live at Hot Chips 2026 and in a September 15 webinar.

SemiWiki's Daniel Nenni previews Hot Chips 2026 at Stanford, where Agentrys demonstrates live how its Agentrys Studio Platform builds a custom agentic chip-design flow.

Many new agentic design flows debuted at DAC this year, most targeting one part of the flow. SemiWiki's Mike Gianfagna reports on how Agentrys launched Agentic Design Automation (ADA) at the DAC Chips to Systems Conference.

VentureBeat talks with Agentrys founder and CEO Mark Ren — who led ChipNeMo at Nvidia — about why every chipmaker licensing the same frontier models raises the floor for the industry without giving anyone an edge, and how Agentic Design Automation builds an engineering advantage that compounds inside each customer's own environment.

SemiWiki's Mike Gianfagna walks through Composable Silicon, in which an autonomous multi-agent workforce is composed in minutes and converges on AgentCore, a sign-off-clean 32-bit processor, within hours to days.

At a Si2 session at DAC 2026, Agentrys weighs in on how to accurately assess and measure the quality of LLMs for chip design.

Agentrys will introduce Agentic Design Automation (ADA) at DAC 2026 in Long Beach — technology that automates and continuously improves the long-running engineering workflows behind advanced chip design, delivered through the Agentrys Studio platform. Live demonstrations and results to date will be presented at booth #743.

Ahead of DAC 2026, Agentrys explains on SemiWiki how Agentic Design Automation and the Agentrys Studio let engineering organizations build, deploy, and continuously improve an agentic engineering workflow on their existing EDA infrastructure.

SemiWiki's Daniel Nenni sits down with Agentrys founder and CEO Mark Ren to discuss Agentic Design Automation (ADA), the Agentrys Studio, and how every semiconductor company can build its own continuously improving agentic engineering workforce.

Design News covers Mark Ren's DesignCon 2026 keynote, "Agentic AI for Chip Design": why AI needs well-designed tools to realize its power, and how Agentic Design Automation — models plus agent-native tools — can lead to autonomous chip design.

Ahead of his DesignCon 2026 keynote, Agentrys CEO Mark Ren tells Design News how autonomous agents can automate verification, debugging, and optimization — and why chip design needs a new paradigm, Agentic Design Automation.