Cadence and NVIDIA deepen chip-design partnership to combine AI automation tools with NVIDIA's computing infrastructure

Cadence Design Systems expanded its existing partnership with NVIDIA to merge Cadence's AI-powered design and simulation software with NVIDIA's AI computing systems — the collaboration targets semiconductor chip design, physical AI systems (robots, autonomous machines), and digital twin simulations (virtual copies of real-world factories or production lines).

The combined toolset lets chip designers and manufacturers run AI-assisted design workflows and physics simulations on NVIDIA's fastest GPUs (graphics processors). This means fewer design iterations, faster validation of new chip layouts, and quicker time-to-market for companies developing new semiconductors or AI-powered hardware.

For semiconductor companies and hardware manufacturers: design cycles that currently take weeks or months could compress significantly, lowering the cost and timeline to bring new AI chips and physical AI products to market. For NVIDIA: this deepens lock-in with Cadence's massive customer base (the world's largest chip designers), making it harder for competitors to displace NVIDIA from the AI infrastructure layer of chip development.