An AI agent just designed a complete RISC-V CPU from scratch in 12 hours
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Twelve hours. That's all it took for an AI system to design a working CPU from scratch, start to finish, no human hand-holding required.
A chip design startup called Verkor.io says its agentic AI system, Design Conductor, autonomously built a RISC-V processor core called VerCore, working from a 219-word specification document and producing files ready for fabrication.
The catch? VerCore hasn't actually been physically built yet, only validated in simulation. And its benchmark performance barely edges out a budget Intel Celeron processor from 2011.
Still, the milestone matters. Design Conductor isn't an AI model itself, but a harness that directs large language models through the full design cycle, the way a human engineer would, just faster.
Verkor plans to release all design files by month's end and showcase an FPGA version at the Design Automation Conference in Long Beach in July, inviting outside engineers to verify the claims themselves.
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