ChipAgents Collaborates With NVIDIA to Launch Build-A-Chip-Bench for Autonomous Chip Design and Implementation

Joint benchmark tests whether AI agents can achieve chip design superintelligence, going beyond generating functionally correct RTL from specification to physical implementation and verified GDS

Summary

• ChipAgents developed Build-A-Chip-Bench with NVIDIA to evaluate AI agents across the end-to-end digital IC design flow, from specification through physical implementation and verified Graphic Design System (GDS).

• Unlike point benchmarks focused primarily on RTL generation or verification, Build-A-Chip-Bench tests whether agents can meet functional, timing, power, area, and physical-verification requirements together.

• Initial evaluations show a significant gap between producing functionally valid designs and achieving physically viable results, creating a measurable target for progress toward autonomous semiconductor engineering.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., October 14, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–ChipAgents, the agentic AI platform for semiconductor engineering, today introduced Build-A-Chip-Bench, a benchmark built in collaboration with NVIDIA designed to test whether AI agents can carry an end-to-end digital chip-design task from specification through physical implementation and verified GDS; thus, measuring true progress toward semiconductor design superintelligence.

AI agents are increasingly capable of generating RTL and completing individual semiconductor engineering tasks. But designing a chip requires far…