hardware intelligence

Hardware Intelligence builds AI tools for chip design, positioning itself as software for the chips that AI itself runs on. The company is backed by Y Combinator and sells to semiconductor teams that want machine assistance in the engineering workflow rather than another general purpose coding assistant. Its second product, announced in August 2026, is WaveZip. WaveZip is a waveform capture tool that the vendor says stores lossless waveforms about 500 times smaller and with about 200 times less overhead. Waveform data from simulation and verification runs is one of the largest and slowest parts of a chip design flow, so a lossless compressor aimed at that data addresses a concrete bottleneck for verification engineers and design teams. The site is a single page with two calls to action: book a demo, or join a waitlist. That suggests access is still managed by the vendor, with early customers onboarded individually, and the home page does not describe the first product in detail. Teams evaluating it should expect to speak with the company to understand scope, supported simulators and deployment options. Pricing is not published. There is no pricing page, and the only routes to the products are the demo request and the waitlist form.