Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI
Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc. launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors. Kindred Ventures led the seed round.
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- SiliconANGLE UPDATED 20:32 EDT / JUNE 18 2026 AI Architect Labs nabs $24M to speed up chip design projects with AI by Maria Deutscher Chip design startup Architect Labs Inc.
- It's a kind of early blueprint that contains only high-level details about the processor being developed.
Those details include the number of circuits the device will include, the calculations they are intended to perform and the way data will travel between them.
- GDSII blueprints describe the dimensions of each translator and the angle at which it should be placed on the substrate.
Architect's website indicates that its platform can not only generate chip designs but also perform verification.
- It intends to work with AI model developers, robotics startups and neocloud operators.
Architect says that it can collaborate with such customers to develop chips optimized for their workloads.
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- #launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.
- #launched today with $24 million in funding from a group of prominent investors.
It was joined by Perplexity AI Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aravind Srinivas, Transformer co-inventor Lukasz Kaiser, former OpenAI Group PBC executive Srinivas Narayanan and more than a half-dozen others. Designing a chip can take years of work and tens of millions of dollars or more.
Palo Alto, California-based Architect is working to make the process more efficient. The company is developing an artificial intelligence platform that automates many of the manual tasks involved in the chip development workflow. Semiconductor projects start with a file called an RTL design.
It's a kind of early blueprint that contains only high-level details about the processor being developed. Those details include the number of circuits the device will include, the calculations they are intended to perform and the way data will travel between them. Engineers don't draw RTL designs but rather write them using specialized programming languages such Verilog.
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