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In brief: An agentic AI system has reportedly designed a complete RISC-V CPU core from scratch in just 12 hours, marking the first time an autonomous agent has built a working CPU from specification to GDSII. Like human engineers, the AI agent followed the conventional design cycle – design, build, test, and refine – but did so entirely on its own rather than relying on separate automation tools for each stage.

The processor – dubbed VerCore – was created by chip design startup Verkor.io using its agentic AI system, Design Conductor. According to a whitepaper published by the company, VerCore features a five-stage pipeline design with an in-order, single-issue architecture and a 1.48GHz clock speed.

The chip reportedly scored 3,261 on the CoreMark benchmark, a specialized tool used to measure the performance of microcontrollers and CPUs in embedded systems.…