Two-person YC-backed Archgen wins chip layout contest against 131 entries
testingcatalog · x · 2026-11-10
Archgen Labs' AI thermal engine took first place among 132 entries in a chip layout contest run by Partcl and Hudson River Trading. The two-person San Francisco startup, backed by Y Combinator, builds an AI agent for chip physical design — from timing analysis and DRC fixes to floorplanning — covering full flows from RTL to 3D die stacking, where it argues most EDA tools still treat each die as a flat chip.
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