Semiconductor Engineering

Electronic Design reports that while the United States is pushing to bring semiconductor manufacturing back home, it still faces a shortage of board designers — the engineers who turn chips into working electronics. The article argues that reshoring efforts have focused on fabs and chips while overlooking the printed circuit board design skills needed to complete the domestic electronics supply chain.

Semiconductor Engineering reports on Moores Lab AI, a new initiative applying agentic AI across the chip design process. The article examines how autonomous AI agents could take on tasks throughout design flows, from architecture to verification and layout, and what this means for engineering teams and design productivity in the semiconductor industry.