AI-Native Chip Design

The Future of Chip Design

AI-native EDA that designs chips faster than human engineers. Describe your architecture in natural language, and APEX-EDA generates synthesised, placed, and routed GDSII — all in the cloud.

4,500
TFLOPS FP8
127%
Faster than R100
10x
Cheaper than Synopsys
100%
Cloud-Native

APEX-EDA Platform

Six AI-native engines replace the entire traditional EDA toolchain.

Natural Language Interface

Describe your chip architecture in plain English. APEX-EDA generates the RTL instantly.

GNN-Powered Synthesis

Graph neural networks optimise logic synthesis at the gate level. 15% better PPA.

AI Placement & Routing

RL agents learn optimal cell placement and routing. 22% less wirelength.

GraphWISE Timing

Graph-based timing prediction: 1000x faster than STA, +/-5% accuracy.

PPA Optimisation Suite

NSGA-III explores the entire power-performance-area Pareto frontier.

Multi-Agent Orchestrator

Specialist AI agents collaborate under a ManagerAgent for design closure.

APEX-X1 AI Chipset

Outperforms NVIDIA R100 on every metric. TSMC N2, HBM4, 4500 TFLOPS FP8.

SpecAPEX-X1NVIDIA R100NVIDIA H100
ProcessTSMC N2TSMC N3TSMC N4
FP8 Compute4,500 TFLOPS~1,980 TFLOPS1,979 TFLOPS
Memory288 GB HBM4192 GB HBM3e80 GB HBM3
Bandwidth8 TB/s4.8 TB/s3.35 TB/s
InterconnectUCIe + CXL 3.0NVLink 5NVLink 4
TDP550 W~700 W700 W
Novel FeaturesFP4/BF6, Sparse OPFP4 (limited)Transformer Engine
Architecture8-tile Chiplet MeshSingle dieSingle die
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From Idea to Silicon

Three steps from architecture spec to tapeout-ready GDSII.

01

Describe Your Design

Write architecture in natural language or upload RTL. APEX-EDA converts to a design graph.

# RISC-V CPU example
$ apex describe "8-core RISC-V RV64GCV, 512KB L2, AXI4, 2x DDR5"
OK Design graph: 1,247 modules, 8.2M gate eq.
02

AI Optimises & Synthesises

GNN synthesis, RL placer-routing, and GraphWISE timing run in parallel.

[Manager] GNN pass 3/10...
[Placer] HPWL: 1.42e6 | Goal: <1.15e6
[Router] Iter 847 | Overflow: 1.2%
[Timing] WNS: -0.12 ns | TNS: -8.4 ns
03

Download GDSII & Reports

When converged within PPA constraints, download complete tapeout package.

OK PPA: P:2.8W A:4.2mm² S:+0.03ns
OK GDSII: design_final.gds (42 MB)
OK LEF/DEF + SDF files

Plans for Every Stage

From academic research to enterprise tapeout. Full APEX-EDA engine suite included.

Academic
Free/month
For students and researchers
  • Up to 100K gates
  • ASAP7 & FreePDK45
  • 2 concurrent jobs
  • Community support
  • 1 GB storage
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Scale
$15K/month
For growing design teams
  • Up to 100M gates
  • Custom process
  • 50 concurrent jobs
  • Priority support (1h)
  • 1 TB storage
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Enterprise
Custom
For large semiconductor companies
  • Unlimited gates
  • On-premise option
  • Unlimited jobs
  • Dedicated engineer
  • 99.99% uptime SLA
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APEX-EDA vs. The World

How we stack up against incumbent tools and open-source.

FeatureAPEX-EDASynopsysCadenceOpenROAD
AI-Native GNN+RL
Cloud-Native True Cloud Wrapper Wrapper Docker
Natural Language
Starting Price Free/$2K mo $2-5M seat $1.5-4M seat Free
Support SLA 1-4h 24-48h 24-48h Community
PPA Optimisation NSGA-III Auto Manual Manual Basic

Trusted by Chip Startups

★★★★★
"APEX-EDA reduced our tapeout timeline from 6 months to 2 weeks."
AL
Dr. Aisha Lim
CTO, VeloChip Inc.
★★★★★
"We couldn't afford Synopsys. APEX gives enterprise EDA at startup prices."
MC
Marcus Chen
CEO, RISC Dynamics
★★★★★
"12% power reduction our old toolchain missed. Game changer."
PK
Priya Kapoor
Head of Silicon, NanoCompute

Get in Touch

Ready to revolutionise your chip design workflow? Contact our team.

hello@apexchipset.com
London, UK
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