GoKawiilTom's Hardware extends free access to AI Chip Design Week coverage through Oct 5
Tom's Hardware Premium is extending free access to its AI Chip Design Week series until Monday, October 5. The coverage includes an unredacted interview with OpenAI hardware VP Richard Ho about the Broadcom-co-developed Jalapeño inference chip, primers on AI's role in chip design, vendor tool breakdowns including Synopsys' new 'Autopilot' platform for AgentEngineer, and a report on IP security risks featuring academics Domenec Forte and Simon Moore.
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The breadth of coverage reflects how central AI-assisted chip design has become across the industry, from custom inference silicon like Jalapeño to EDA tool vendors embedding AI agents into workflows. The IP security angle raised by academics suggests the industry may be grappling with new risks as AI systems get deeper access to proprietary chip designs, though no specific breaches are reported.
- Tom's Hardware Premium's AI Chip Design Week content is free until October 5
- OpenAI's Richard Ho discusses the Jalapeño ASIC co-developed with Broadcom
- Synopsys launched an 'Autopilot' platform for AI-assisted chip design workflows
Source: tomshardware.com — Sayem Ahmed, 2026-10-03
Published there as: “This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026”
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