ChipAgents Helps Andes Technology Dramatically Accelerate Custom Processor Design and Verification

Agentic AI platform reduces months-long verification workflow to approximately three weeks while helping leading CPU IP provider streamline complex silicon development

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChipAgents, the category leader for Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that Andes Technology, a leading supplier of RISC-V processor IP and a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, has successfully deployed ChipAgents across multiple processor design and verification projects. In production deployments, Andes reduced a processor customization task from 8.5 weeks to six weeks, a 30% reduction in development time, while cutting a separate verification workflow from two-to-three months to approximately three weeks.

"The semiconductor industry is entering an era where customization is becoming a competitive advantage, but customization traditionally comes at the cost of engineering time," said William Wang, CEO of ChipAgents. "As companies build more specialized processors for AI, edge computing, and domain-specific applications, engineering teams are being asked to deliver more innovation without extending development schedules. ChipAgents is fundamentally changing that equation by helping engineers move faster through some of the most time-intensive parts of the design and verification process."

One challenge ChipAgents helped Andes overcome was customizing a complex Memory Load-Store Unit (LSU), a critical processor subsystem responsible for managing memory operations. Traditionally, modifying these components requires engineers to spend weeks tracing legacy RTL, analyzing architectural dependencies and validating correctness before new functionality can be introduced. Using ChipAgents, Andes reduced the project timeline from 8.5 weeks to six weeks while maintaining architectural correctness.

ChipAgents also helped Andes address one of the most persistent bottlenecks in semiconductor development: verification. Bus Interface Unit (BIU) verification traditionally requires extensive manual effort to synchronize specifications, update verification environments, and create tests for complex concurrency scenarios. By leveraging ChipAgents, Andes reduced a workflow that traditionally required two-to-three months to approximately three weeks. Complex verification stimulus generation tasks that previously required one to two weeks of engineering effort were reduced to as little as one to two days.

"As processor architectures continue to evolve, both customization and verification are becoming increasingly resource-intensive," said Yung-Ching Hsiao, Senior VP of R&D at Andes Technology. "ChipAgents helps our teams reduce manual effort across multiple engineering workflows, allowing us to accelerate development schedules while maintaining the quality and correctness required for production processor designs."

The Andes deployment reflects a reality many engineering teams are dealing with today. Processor development isn't getting simpler, and customers want to accelerate timelines. Every new feature, customization request and verification cycle adds work to already stretched engineering teams. The result is a growing need to find new ways to remove manual effort from the development process so engineers can spend more time building and less time maintaining.

ChipAgents was built specifically for semiconductor engineers. Rather than acting as a generic coding assistant, the platform helps teams navigate specifications, legacy RTL, verification environments and other engineering data that make up day-to-day chip development. The goal is straightforward: reduce the time engineers spend hunting for information, updating infrastructure and performing repetitive tasks so they can focus on solving engineering problems.

For more information about ChipAgents' solutions for AI-driven design and verification, visit chipagents.ai.

Pioneering AI Together: Andes and ChipAgents

As ChipAgents’ first commercial customer, Andes has been more than an early adopter, it has been a long-term co-innovation partner, helping bring agentic AI into real-world semiconductor production environments. Together, Andes and ChipAgents are expanding AI across multiple workflows, with a shared goal of accelerating the journey from design intent to tapeout. This partnership reflects Andes’ long-standing commitment to pioneering new engineering technologies, just as the company became an early adopter of what is now an industry-standard formal verification tool more than a decade ago, and turning AI innovation into production impact.

About ChipAgents

ChipAgents is an Agentic AI platform that transforms specifications and code into production-ready RTL, verification assets, and automated root-cause analysis, dramatically shortening design and verification cycles. Founded in 2024, the company brings autonomous AI Agents into production semiconductor workflows, serving both design and verification engineers and embedded systems teams at leading semiconductor companies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information, visit chipagents.ai.

About Andes Technology

As a Founding Premier member of RISC-V International and a leader in commercial CPU IP, Andes Technology (TWSE: 6533; SIN: US03420C2089; ISIN: US03420C1099) is driving the global adoption of RISC-V. Andes’ extensive RISC-V Processor IP portfolio spans from ultra-efficient 32-bit CPUs to high-performance 64-bit Out-of-Order multiprocessor coherent clusters. With advanced vector processing, DSP capabilities, the powerful Andes Automated Custom Extension (ACE) framework, end-to-end AI hardware/software stack, ISO 26262 certification with full compliance, and a robust software ecosystem, Andes unlocks the full potential of RISC-V, empowering customers to accelerate innovation across AI, automotive, communications, consumer electronics, data centers, and mobile devices. Over 20 billion Andes-powered SoCs are driving innovations globally. Discover more at www.andestech.com and connect with Andes on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube and Bilibili.