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Headlining the week is our interview with OpenAI hardware boss Richard Ho, who lifts the lid on everything to do with Jalapeño, the company's AI-designed inference ASIC, which made headlines earlier this year at Hot Chips 2026. We supplement this coverage with a brief history of how AI is being used in EDA tools, the future of artificial intelligence-assisted AI designs ... and there's much more to come.

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