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Why Chipforge
Legacy EDA was built for a different era, and it left the door open. Chipforge is a distributed APAC team walking through it: independent hubs, sovereign-capable, built AI-native from the start.
Partnerships
Built on the world's #1 AI research.
Two decades of hardware-AI research from NTU Singapore, the engine under Chipforge's AI.
For AI research worldwide (ShanghaiRanking 2025)
Years of peer-reviewed AI-for-hardware research
Papers at DAC, ICCAD and DATE
Exclusive, perpetual licence
Chipforge holds the IP licence to NTU's hardware-AI research portfolio, including the graph-reasoning techniques behind Smeltr. NTU is ranked first in the world for AI in ShanghaiRanking's 2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Ecosystem member
Part of NVIDIA's program for AI startups: technology access, engineering expertise and go-to-market ecosystem.
Chipforge difference
No baggage to drag forward.
Born post-legacy: every old tool drags decades of assumptions with it. Chipforge started from nothing, and built only what AI-native silicon design actually needs. Our agents don't just generate: they run a self-correction loop against real simulation and formal proofs, learn from every result, and work off a live graph of the whole design, all on hardware you control.
The old way
Chipforge
Verified in days, not months.
Come help us reinvent chip design
We're a small team teaching agents to design chips the way the best engineers do, only faster. If that excites you, come build the forge with us.