Samsung is reportedly using Claude to speed up chip design

Samsung is reportedly using Anthropic’s Claude Code to speed up parts of semiconductor verification and software development. A report from Chosun Biz says one verification environment and testing effort for an SoC project, expected to take more than a month, was completed in about two days with the tool. In another example, a second-year engineer with no prior experience using Claude Code—or related USB communication standards—finished a task typically expected to take around a month in a single day. Samsung began giving developers access to Claude Code in May and later expanded usage to specialized chip-design work. The company keeps engineers in the loop because Claude has produced errors, including misunderstandings, unrelated changes, or attempts to modify circuit code when it should only analyze verification results. Samsung’s System LSI division, estimated at roughly 6,000 employees, faces a much larger rival workforce at Qualcomm, which has over 52,000.