Added to Saved Stories in Login VIEW SAVED STORIES How Maieutic Is Automating Chip Design With GenAI For years, analog and integrated chips, critical for almost all electronic items, have been designed via manual processes. Their design cycles can take up to 15 months and more complex projects can go up to 24 months. To bring this turnaround time down with AI, semiconductor veterans Gireesh Rajendran, Ashish Lachhwani, Rakesh Kumar, and Krishna Sankar founded Maieutic Semiconductors in 2025. Crafting Chips With AI: The Bengaluru-based startup is harnessing the power of GenAI to automate the process of chip design. Maieutic’s tech stack revolves around leveraging open-source foundational models and fine-tuning them with curated, proprietary datasets. Combining these models with specialised knowledge in analog design, it is building a copilot to help automate the early stages of chip design workflows. Maieutic’s Wide Horizon: The startup aims to automate the initial part of the designing process by creating use cases for high-demand areas like battery management systems, mixed-signal sensors and wireless technologies. Currently, the startup is speeding up product development and is looking to tie up with global foundries and EDA firms. Backed with its GenAI prowess,