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WHY PHYSICAL AI IS SO HARD TO ENGINEER

semiengineering.com13 min read

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This article presents views from Synopsys, Keysight, Renesas, Arteris, Cadence, and Mixel on how physical AI changes chip design. Engineers must handle unpredictable environments, safety and serviceability, and split designs between devices that can rely on the cloud and those that must run fully locally, such as vehicles. Several speakers frame it as a sensing and imaging problem as much as a compute one.