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What AI Tokens Really Cost a Chip Design Team
Until recently, an EDA budget was a negotiated number that stayed put for the length of a contract. AI agents change that, because they add two bills that move with use: model tokens, and the extra tool licences those agents consume when they run simulations by the hundred. Vendors and customers are now arguing openly about both. The public debate tends to quote a single token price, and a single price is no help to a manager planning next yea…