{"id":106532,"date":"2026-07-15T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/106532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T08:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T08:51:12","slug":"embedder-and-verkor-partner-to-take-agentic-ai-from-chip-design-to-working-firmware-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/106532\/","title":{"rendered":"Embedder and Verkor Partner to Take Agentic AI From Chip Design to Working Firmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784105472_722_images.jpeg\" alt=\"Embedder - Hardware-Aware AI for Embedded Software Development\" width=\"139\" height=\"73\"\/><br \/>\n An AI agent designed a RISC-V CPU core in about 12 hours. Now an AI agent is writing and testing its firmware on real silicon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/embedder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Embedder<\/a>, the AI coding agent for firmware and embedded systems, and Verkor, the company behind the autonomous chip design system Conductor, announced a partnership linking AI-driven silicon design to AI-driven firmware development. Together, the two companies cover the full stack \u2014 from a written spec to verified embedded software.<\/p>\n<p>New silicon has always waited on software. Every chip needs bring-up code, drivers, and reference firmware before anyone can build on it \u2014 work that normally leans on vendor ecosystems built up over years. VerCore \u2014 the RISC-V core Conductor just designed \u2014 has none of that. Embedder builds that context from scratch, grounding it in the reference documentation. Then it drives the test equipment to prove the firmware actually works on real silicon.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aithority.com\/interviews\/aithority-interview-with-matej-bukovinski-chief-technology-officer-at-nutrient\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AiThority Interview with Matej Bukovinski, Chief Technology Officer at Nutrient<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChip design used to take months. Verkor just cut it down to a day,\u201d said Ethan Gibbs, CEO of Embedder. \u201cThat makes firmware the next bottleneck, and firmware is the problem we built Embedder to solve. A brand-new core nobody has ever written code for is normally the hardest week of a firmware engineer\u2019s career. For Embedder it\u2019s a normal Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verkor\u2019s Conductor produced VerCore, a complete RISC-V CPU core, from a 219-word prompt in roughly 12 hours. In simulation the core runs at 1.48 GHz and posts a CoreMark score of 3,261. An FPGA implementation of Vercore is fully operational.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA system is only proven when software runs successfully on its hardware. AI-based software and hardware co-development speeds up building and validating a fully working system, taking it from years to days. This partnership gives AI-designed silicon a software story on day one and pushes fully integrated system development and deployment to the next level for the industry,\u201d said Suresh Krishna, CEO of Verkor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An AI agent designed a RISC-V CPU core in about 12 hours. 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