Cognichip

Cognichip is an AI-first semiconductor company revolutionizing the way chips are designed. Its core technology, Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI), is built on what the company describes as the world's first physics-informed foundation AI model tailored for chip design, positioning ACI as a new scaling factor for semiconductors. ACI aims to understand, learn, and solve chip design problems with designer-level cognitive abilities, reducing design effort by roughly 75% and cutting completion time in half to address the industry bottleneck where chip development can take three to five years. Founded by semiconductor and AI veterans including CEO Faraj Aalaei and CTO Ehsan Kamalinejad, the company is backed by Lux Capital, Mayfield, and Seligman Ventures, has Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on its board, and was named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative Companies of 2026. Added to the API Evangelist network and enriched by the pipeline; the company publishes a marketing and corporate presence today with no public developer or API surface.

Cognichip is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence, Chip Design, and EDA.

Cognichip’s developer surface includes engineering blog, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 14.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Cognichip
description: Cognichip is an AI-first semiconductor company revolutionizing the way chips are designed. Its core technology,
  Artificial Chip Intelligence (ACI), is built on what the company describes as the world's first physics-informed foundation
  AI model tailored for chip design, positioning ACI as a new scaling factor for semiconductors. ACI aims to understand, learn,
  and solve chip design problems with designer-level cognitive abilities, reducing design effort by roughly 75% and cutting
  completion time in half to address the industry bottleneck where chip development can take three to five years. Founded
  by semiconductor and AI veterans including CEO Faraj Aalaei and CTO Ehsan Kamalinejad, the company is backed by Lux Capital,
  Mayfield, and Seligman Ventures, has Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on its board, and was named to Fast Company's World's Most Innovative
  Companies of 2026. Added to the API Evangelist network and enriched by the pipeline; the company publishes a marketing and
  corporate presence today with no public developer or API surface.
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