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Embodied AI is artificial intelligence that perceives, models, and acts in the physical world through a body. Humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles, drones, industrial robots. Machines that don't just compute about the world, but operate inside it.

Today, humanoid robots are in their infancy. A tethered, teleoperated robot in familiar settings is less autonomous than an 18-month-old. The real potential comes when they cut the tether and run multiple models across domains — and ultimately when machines enter novel, high-consequence settings, with airplane-grade redundancy and learning happening on the body itself.

For decades, chip design has progressed through three distinct eras: manual craftsmanship, EDA automation, and AI-assisted tools. Now, a fourth era is emerging—Superintelligent Chip Design™—where AI systems autonomously generate, optimize, and verify complete chip-software systems with minimal human intervention. This white paper articulates why Era 4 represents not just faster design, but a category-defining transformation that will determine which companies lead the next decades of semiconduct

Babak has 20 years of experience across Silicon Valley startups and global semiconductor leaders. He founded startups spanning generative AI, autonomous vehicles, 5G silicon, and wearables, and built and led the engineering group at Quantenna on its path to an IPO. He previously held senior roles at Qualcomm and Broadcom, and research positions at IBM Research and NEC Labs America. Babak holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia and a doctorate in Information Technology from Tampere

AI-engineered silicon design spanning architecture, digital, and analog. Building frontier Silicon for embodied intelligence.

AI-engineered silicon design spanning architecture, digital, and analog. Building frontier Silicon for embodied intelligence.