Electronics Weekly
My strategy is to get every UK semiconductor company, design house, university, R&D institute, startup, individual designer or student to come up with either designs or ideas for designs which can use this capacity. HMG can provide access to the latest AI-enabled EDA tools if required.
Key to my plan is to get as many UK designers as possible familiarised with AI-assisted design which can significantly accelerate time-to-market and optimise layout, power, performance, leakage, simulation, verification and efficiency. AI is said to reduce chip design time by 30-50% and accelerate place-and-route by 40-60%.
The combination of a transformative advance in IC design with low fab costs could be a shot in the arm for UK chip entrepreneurs if they can be enabled to take advantage of it. This enablement will now be made available thanks to Yours Truly.
I have set up a committee to decide which designs and design ideas we will support under the scheme. I shall be the chairman and the other members, who I will appoint, will be my stooges – so I will be running the show.
As word gets around that I am gate-keeper to this opportunity, I have no doubt that applications to take advantage of it will be accompanied by some agreeable sweeteners.
