Cadence Design Systems just showed up to Computex 2026 with something that makes traditional chip verification look like sending a fax. The company unveiled what it calls the industry’s first fully autonomous Level-5 ChipStack AI Super Agent on June 1, 2026, built on Nvidia’s Nemotron foundation models and secured by the Nvidia OpenShell runtime.
The headline number: RTL validation cycles reduced by over 40 times. In English, that means a standard five-week verification process now takes less than a day.
What the ChipStack AI Super Agent actually does
Cadence’s new agent operates at what the company designates “Level-5 autonomy,” meaning it can independently execute complex chip design and verification workflows without constant human hand-holding. The system can run hundreds of dynamic simulations autonomously, requiring only human oversight rather than human direction at every step.
To put that in perspective, thousands of Nvidia engineers already run billions of compute hours annually on chip verification. The technology is powered by Nvidia’s Nemotron foundation models, which provide the underlying AI reasoning capabilities. The Nvidia OpenShell runtime handles the security layer.
