“While the big EDA vendors talked about using AI to tackle all the chip design complexity, it was also refreshing to see some (well-funded) startups starting to tackle EDA industry challenges using generative AI. I spoke to Rick Carlson, a veteran of the EDA industry (he told me this was his 40th year), and he suggested the emergence of these new EDA startups was an exciting new phase of the EDA industry – maybe, what I like to call it, EDA 3.0. He highlighted two of those whom I also spoke to, which were Silimate, and PrimisAI.”