AI Starts Designing Chips: EDA Giants Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens EDA Open the Agentic AI War — Chinese Vendors See a Golden Window

At DAC 2026, Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens EDA each unveiled agentic AI strategies for chip design, from Synopsys' L1-L5 autonomy ladder and Cadence's AuraStack super agent to Siemens' physics-verified Fuse agent. Kimi's K3 model designed a chip autonomously for 48 hours, and Chinese EDA vendors from Xpeedic to XEPIC and UniVista are racing to catch the wave.