Andes Technology Cuts Chip Design and Verification Time with ChipAgents AI

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 customisation 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 customisation is becoming a competitive advantage, but customisation traditionally comes at the cost of engineering time," said William Wang, CEO of ChipAgents. "As companies build more specialised 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 customising 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, analysing 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 synchronise 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 customisation 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, customisation 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.