# Cognichip

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cognichip/  
**Website:** https://cognichip.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 12.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Cognichip Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence, Chip Design, EDA, Foundation Models, Machine-Learning

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cognichip/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.