Market CoverageSynopsys Autopilot Aims to Consolidate Chip Design Around One StackBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, shares his insights on Synopsys Autopilot, why seven lifecycle-spanning AgentEngineer agents point toward one team designing every stage, and what that consolidation means for EDA consumption.Brendan Burke·September 28, 2026
Market CoverageTSMC's OIP Forum Turns Agentic Chip Design Demos Into Production FlowsBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines TSMC OIP 2026, where A14 certifications and foundry-endorsed agentic flows arrived together and IC-Link by imec opened the first managed-cloud mixed-partner EDA path to advanced nodes.Brendan Burke·September 24, 2026
Market CoverageSynopsys, Cadence, and Siemens Take Agentic Chip Design Autonomous at DACBrendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how NVIDIA and AMD are driving agentic chip design at DAC 2026 through collaborations with Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens spanning models, physics libraries, runtimes, and CPUs.Brendan Burke·August 6, 2026