Build-A-Chip-Bench evaluates AI agents across chip design, from workload specifications through layout, using open-source tools and a process design kit.

Semiconductor Engineering introduced Build-A-Chip-Bench as an evaluation of AI agents across the chip-design workflow. Its stated scope begins with a workload specification and extends through GDS, or Graphic Data System, layout.

The benchmark uses open-source tools and an open-source process design kit, or PDK. The source explicitly frames the task as assessing agents’ ability to complete the workflow, rather than evaluating only a single intermediate design output.

The supplied excerpt does not identify the toolchain, PDK process node, evaluated agents, scoring rules, or success rates. It reports a benchmark introduction, not fabricated silicon, a production chip release, or a demonstrated improvement in chip-design cost or performance.