India, June 3 -- Cadence, the semiconductor design software company, has unveiled what it calls the semiconductor industry's first fully autonomous virtual AI design engineer, extending its ChipStack AI Super Agent framework to Level-5 autonomy and marking a new step in the adoption of agentic artificial intelligence across chip development workflows.

Announced at COMPUTEX 2026, the new system combines Cadence's electronic design automation (EDA) software portfolio with NVIDIA Nemotron models and NVIDIA OpenShell runtime to automate complex chip design and verification tasks. The company said the platform can significantly reduce validation timelines by enabling engineers to run hundreds of simulations and verification workflows autonomo...