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I scanned 106 chip-company websites to see if AI agents can read them. Average grade: F

Your buyers research inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity now — and an agent can only recommend what it can actually parse. So I pointed an agent-readiness scanner at 106 semiconductor, analog, power, RF, sensor, MCU, memory, passive, connector, EDA, distributor, and test-&-measurement sites and scored each 0–100 across 20 signals (robots.txt, llms.txt, MCP, structured data, content negotiation).

The result: an industry-wide F

  • Average score: 42/100. Only one site cleared a B; zero scored an A.
  • A typical homepage costs an agent 40,000–90,000 tokens to read. The same content as clean markdown is ~1,000–2,500 — ~95% of it is wasted on markup an agent has to chew through.
Most ready Least ready
Quectel 71 (B) Cadence 16 (F)
onsemi / Nuvoton / Silergy 69 (C) Sensata 16 (F)
MediaTek 63 (C) Anritsu 16 (F)
AMD / Infineon 60 (C) Goodix 16 (F)

(Texas Instruments 39, Analog Devices 34, NVIDIA 55, Qualcomm 39.)

The three failures almost everyone shares

1. No markdown content negotiation. Send Accept: text/markdown and you still get a wall of HTML.

if ((req.headers.get('accept') || '').includes('text/markdown')) {
  return new Response(markdown, {
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/markdown; charset=utf-8' },
  })
}
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2. No llms.txt. The simple index that tells an agent which pages matter:

# Your Company
> One-line description.

## Products
- [CT8000 3D Hall sensor](https://you.com/ct8000.md): ±40 mT, I²C / SPI
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3. No MCP server. None of the 106 expose an endpoint an agent can call (search_parts, get_datasheet), so it's stuck scraping rendered HTML.

Check your own

Paste any domain into the free scanner — same 0–100 score, the category breakdown, and the exact fixes, in ~2s, no signup: https://aireadify.ai/scan

Method/caveats: public pages only; bot-blocking sites excluded (so reality may be a touch worse); scores are a snapshot. Disclosure: we built the scanner and do agent-readiness work.

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Hi! I built the scanner. Happy to answer questions about the methodology — or drop any domain into the free scanner (aireadify.ai/scan) and share what score you get. No signup needed.