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Open models are moving into specialized semiconductor workflows. NVIDIA says Nemotron 3 Ultra averaged a 97.1% pass rate across nine CVDP RTL categories while using 6,629 tokens per iteration.

HWE-Bench moves LLM agent evaluation from isolated HDL tasks to repository-scale hardware repairs. The best agent solved 70.7% overall, but performance fell below 65% on complex SoC-level projects.

NVIDIA said on March 16, 2026 that Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, Siemens and Synopsys are bringing NVIDIA-powered AI agents and GPU-accelerated software into industrial workflows. The announcement spans chip design, automotive simulation, digital twins and manufacturing infrastructure across AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, OCI and major OEM partners.