TMTPOST — The world’s first processor chip design system powered entirely by artificial intelligence, named “Qimeng”, has been officially launched, marking a breakthrough in end-to-end AI-driven semiconductor development. According to an announcement on June 10, the Qimeng system can autonomously handle the entire chip design process, from hardware architecture to foundational software, with no manual intervention. It represents a major leap toward AI-designed chips, achieving performance across multiple key metrics that matches or even rivals those produced by expert human engineers. The research findings behind Qimeng were recently published on the preprint server arXiv, highlighting its significance in the global race toward automating semiconductor innovation. The launch of Qimeng underscores growing efforts to integrate AI into the core of chip development workflows, potentially reducing time-to-market, lowering costs, and increasing design complexity beyond traditional human limits.