For a front-end-focused chip-design startup in a long organizational chain, radically shortening front-end design with AI may have limited value if downstream processes remain bottlenecks.

“And I think it's similar when you're in a like long chain of organizations that, you know, there isn't necessarily an overwhelming need to or return on radically changing your processes as a front end focused chip design startup adopting AI in aggressive ways to shorten your time.”

“your timelines from being you know maybe 12 months of front-end design work to a tiny fraction of that if there's then going to be kind of the conventional bottlenecks and the conventional pace on the next piece um and i think that's sort of you know at some extent there will always be those bottlenecks you know we all have the same kind of fab cycle times with our foundry partners so so from the moment you send the chip to them to getting it back is you know”