But Synopsys (SNPS.O) on Wednesday said it has worked with Microsoft to create its own Copilot to help with designing computer chips.
Synopsys trained the system on huge troves of data it has accumulated over decades in business to help with that.
"But if you're not generating (chip design work) that is over 99.9% accurate, you're introducing a bug in your chip, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars."
Fixing bugs is one of the lengthiest and costliest parts of the chip design process.
Microsoft said it has already started to test the Synopsys system with its own chip design teams, which on Wednesday unveiled the company's first in-house data center chips.
Persons:
Steve Marcus, Synopsys, Shankar Krishnamoorthy, Krishnamoorthy, Erik Berg, Stephen Nellis, Nick Zieminski
Organizations:
REUTERS, Microsoft, Wednesday, San, Thomson
Locations:
Las Vegas , Nevada, U.S, San Francisco