Rishov Sarkar

Co-founder & CTO @hwintelligence (YC S26) | Ph.D. ECE '26 @SharcLab @GeorgiaTech | he/him

[Rishov Sarkar @ArkaneMoose]

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[Athreya Anand @athreyaanand]

Today we’re making a crazy promise to chip companies: we’ll erase every waveform dump run on your farm, cut your storage 100x, and hand your engineers back days from unnecessary simulation.

Might sound impossible, but we’re serious.

🗜️Introducing WaveZip by @hwintelligence!

[Rishov Sarkar @ArkaneMoose]

@athreyaanand @hwintelligence Wow

[Rishov Sarkar @ArkaneMoose]

Excited to finally launch!

[Athreya Anand @athreyaanand]

We’re proud to launch @hwintelligence (YC S26): AI tools for the chips your AI runs on.

Our first product is Wave, a terminal-native waveform debugger with a verification agent built-in. And it’s just the start.

If you design or verify chips—ASICs or FPGAs—we’d love to talk!

[Athreya Anand @athreyaanand]

Super excited to announce that Rishov (@ArkaneMoose) and I are building hardware intelligence (@hwintelligence ) at @ycombinator! 🚀

Leaving Google and a PhD, we wanted to build something big. We found it in something small: chips.

Right now, the industry is bolting AI onto extremely incumbent EDA tools — but the focus is fundamentally backwards. AI hardware development can only be as fast as the underlying tools. That's why we're building agent-native workflows for chip design.

If you work in hardware, FPGA, or ASIC design, I’d love to chat!

[hardware intelligence @hwintelligence]

Saying "hi" 👋

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

"does bacon work with bun? when I try to run chai in fish my gerkin is complaining"

This is what we sound like, friends

[Marc @mrousavy]

haven't touched web dev in a while, am i doing this right?

[Buttface @the_buttface]

Do you prefer versus or co-op shitting

[Zack Witten @zswitten]

Spamming "hi" at every LLM: a thread.

[Find me on bsky @colin-fraser.net @colin_fraser]

I love it

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

this is super late but i hope everybody has a great 2023

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1.

[Natalie Moore @Nataliemoore143]

absolutely criminal that i can’t do tomorrows sudoku and crossword before i go to bed bc the nyt games website and app are down 🫥

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

“silicon valley”? with so many hardware and software companies calling that area home, i’d like to suggest a new name for it: computer valley

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

now that’s what i’m talkin’ about!

[Jon Bois @jon_bois]

I just chatted with an AI for the first time, and frankly, what I found was startling. My takeaway? This is an immensely powerful tool – and I’m not sure whether we’re ready. Take a look:

[AlphaPool | $alpha @alphastaking]

@goodside Incredible