Meanwhile Google has already used AI for this exact stage of chip design with AlphaChip:

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transfor...

And they've responded to the absurd degree of skepticism that followed:

"That Chip Has Sailed: A Critique of Unfounded Skepticism Around AI for Chip Design" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10053

The AlphaChip authors beg to differ...

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/how-alphachip-transfor...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.10053