Verkor (Ravi Krishna, Suresh Krishna and David Chin) builds Design Conductor, an autonomous agent that applies frontier models to build semiconductors end to end. In this corpus it appears once, with the twelve-hour CPU, the item that opens the silicon-designs-itself theme; the TERAFAB announcement two days later supersedes it. It is unrelated to the French battery maker of the same name.
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Chip-design company whose Design Conductor agent built a complete RISC-V CPU from a requirements document to tape-out-ready layout in twelve hours.
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