{"slug": "allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering", "title": "Allen Rush presents the beginning of AiNEKKO’s journey in AI-Assisted Semiconductor Engineering", "summary": "Allen Rush presented a case study of AI-assisted semiconductor engineering under extreme time, human, and token constraints at the Cool Chips — Hot Takes event held Aug 25, 2026, in Palo Alto, organized by AiNEKKO, AIFoundry, OpenHW Foundation, and 10xEngineers. Rush described how the open CORE-ET architecture and ET Platform can underpin agentic development and reduce the cost and complexity of building specialized processors for Edge AI, with further results published in a white paper.", "body_md": "On Aug 25, 2026, in Palo Alto, we got together for **Cool Chips — Hot Takes**, an independent community gathering organized by **AiNEKKO, AIFoundry, OpenHW Foundation, and 10xEngineers**. The event was happening right after Hot Chips conference and OpenAI’s announcement of Jalapeno, so most discussions were centered around the agentic development and hyper-specialization of chips.\n\nIn this session, **Allen Rush** explored an example of successful **AI-assisted semiconductor engineering** under extreme constraints (time, human and token) and the future of Edge AI hardware.\n\nAllen discussed how the open **CORE-ET** architecture and ET Platform can serve as the foundation for agentic development and what it takes to set up effective workflows, dramatically reducing the cost and complexity of building specialized processors for Edge AI.\n\nMore results published in the [white paper](https://et-core.nekko.ai/AI-Assisted-Semiconductor-Engineering-White-Paper.pdf).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering", "canonical_source": "https://blog.aifoundry.org/p/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning", "published_at": "2026-09-04 11:43:41+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-11 22:51:20.784941+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-chips", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Allen Rush", "AiNEKKO", "AIFoundry", "OpenHW Foundation", "10xEngineers", "CORE-ET", "ET Platform", "OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/allen-rush-presents-the-beginning-of-ainekkos-journey-in-ai-assisted-engineering.jsonld"}}