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Japan's Rapidus partners with Cadence on AI agent chip design tools

Contract chipmaker looks to boost customer convenience amid mass production drive

Rapidus President Atsuyoshi Koike said AI agents will play a central role in speeding up chip design. (Photo by Shuhei Ochiai)

TOKYO -- Japanese chipmaker Rapidus and U.S. software company Cadence will collaborate on providing customers with agentic artificial intelligence tools that help design chips, the companies announced on Friday.