hardware intelligence

Say "hi" to the future of chip design -- backed by @YCombinator (S26)

[hardware intelligence @hwintelligence]

Waveforms so small you can barely see 'em! 🤏

[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!

[hardware intelligence @hwintelligence]

Officially ready for 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" 👋