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Tim Costa
VP and General Manager of Industrial and Computational Engineering at NVIDIA, overseeing CUDA-X, CAE, and quantum computing products.
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Aug 7, 2026
Beyond Automation: Self-Verifying AI Agents for Semiconductor and PCB Design
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Eric SingerHOST
What does the underlying infrastructure need to look like to make that kind of long-running agentic operation possible?
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4:33Tim CostaGUEST
You know, at a high level, this has to look less like a chat session and more like a secure, durable engineering service.
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4:44Tim CostaGUEST
The harness around the model has to preserve workflow state, inputs, artifacts, decisions and approvals, checkpoint progress, and resume safely after a tool failure or a human handoff.
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4:56Tim CostaGUEST
It also needs enterprise controls, scoped identity, permissioned tool access, isolation and audit trails, observability, and explicit checkpoints where an engineer can inspect or redirect the work.
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Eric SingerHOST
Where do you see all of this going in the more near term, say, the next two to three years? And what are some of the milestones you think we should look out for that would signal we have actually genuinely moved beyond automation into trusted agentic engineering?
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3:58Tim CostaGUEST
But we have a vision about how quantum computing will be useful, and it's really a point at which we have the integration of larger-scale quantum technologies, quantum processors, as part of... data centers and large-scale computing looks very similar to what we have today.
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4:13Tim CostaGUEST
If you look at today's large-scale computing infrastructure, it's CPUs and GPUs and storage and memory and interconnects, and it's very complex but very heterogeneous.
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4:21Tim CostaGUEST
And each part plays the role that it's best suited for, including the CPU and including the GPU.
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5:29Ed LudlowHOST
What's the market there? How widely is your technology being used in parallel with many of the quantum names that we saw today?