SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 3, 2025 — Today Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) announced expanding Synopsys.ai Copilot generative AI (GenAI) capabilities for its industry-leading semiconductor design solutions, enabling semiconductor engineering teams to accelerate development timelines, support significantly more complex designs, and increase engineering velocity amidst a workforce shortage. Synopsys pioneered AI as a core capability of modern chip design, applying reinforcement learning and GenAI […]
HPC News Bytes 20250707: The Eye-Popping AI Server Market, the European Quantum Act, TSMC’s Arizona 3nm Fab, EDA for China
July 7, 2025 by
A happy July day to you! Interesting developments took place in the world of HPC-AI notwithstanding the short holiday week (in the U.S.), here’s ….
HPC News Bytes 20250602: NVIDIA Knocking on China’s AI Door, EDA Software Hits Trade Walls, China Tech Merger, NERSC’s New Supercomputer, UK ‘De-Brexits’ HPC
June 2, 2025 by
Good June morning to you! It’s been an intensely geopolitical week for HPC-AI, including: Nvidia earnings outperform despite ….
White House Imposing Export Restrictions on EDA Software to China
May 30, 2025 by
The U.S. government’s drive to hobble China’s advanced chip capabilities, mostly focused to date on restricting exports of GPUs used for AI, has spilled over into software used for designing chips – electronic design automation.
Cadence Unveils Millennium M2000 Supercomputer with NVIDIA Blackwell Systems
May 7, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Cadence today announced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, for AI-basted simulation for engineering and drug design workloads. The supercomputer integrates Cadence’s solvers with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solver software. Cadence said this combination reduces simulation run times and up to […]
Rapidus Collaborates with Cadence on 2nm Semiconductor Solutions for HPC-AI
December 11, 2024 by
TOKYO, SEMICON Japan, Dec. 10, 2024—Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced a collaboration with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. to provide co-optimized AI-driven reference design flows and a broad IP portfolio. The new collaboration will support the Rapidus 2nm gate-all-around (GAA) process and leverage the design and manufacturing benefits from its backside power delivery […]
Rapidus Collaborates with Synopsys on Semiconductor Design
December 11, 2024 by
TOKYO, SEMICON Japan, Dec. 10, 2024 – Rapidus Corporation, a manufacturer of advanced logic semiconductors, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Synopsys Inc., a provider of silicon to systems design solutions, intended to enable a solution that will shorten design cycle time, using a new approach to natively model process sensitivity and variation in the design steps. […]
Altair Names Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem Partner
July 9, 2024 by
SEOUL, July 9, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, has been selected as an electronic design automation (EDA) partner for the Samsung Advanced Foundry Ecosystem (SAFE). Through this collaboration, Altair and Samsung Electronics will combine Altair’s comprehensive EDA technology with Samsung Foundry’s manufacturing capabilities to establish a more innovative, more efficient semiconductor design and production process. […]
Altair to Acquire EDA Company Metrics Design Automation
July 1, 2024 by
TROY, Mich., July 1, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced it has agred to acquire the outstanding capital stock of Metrics Design Automation Inc. (Metrics), a Canadian company with a simulation as a service (SaaS) business model for semiconductor electronic functional simulation and design verification. Closing of the transaction is subject to customary conditions. The Metrics […]
Cadence Announces AI-Driven EDA Verification Platform
September 13, 2022 by
SAN JOSE, Calif.— Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the Cadence Verisium AI-driven verification platform, a suite of applications leveraging big data and AI designed to optimize verification workloads, boost coverage and accelerate root cause analysis of bugs. The Verisium platform is built on the new Cadence Joint Enterprise Data and AI (JedAI) […]
