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Rapidus, Japan’s government-backed leading-edge chip startup, has got its first customer – Canon. Canon is going to order 2nm test chips designed by Synopsys to be fabbed at Rapidus’ Chitose site. Last month the company announced that it had raised $1.7bn from 32 private-sector companies (including Canon), with $634m of that coming from the government. Rapidus projects that it will need ...
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This week the choices include Synopsys selling its ARC IP to GlobalFoundries, TSMC investing another $300bn in an Arizona fab, and initial filings for a Chinese mega-constellation of satellites...
Synopsys has sold its Processor IP Solutions business to GlobalFoundries for an undisclosed sum. It follows the MIPS acquisition in August, which added its Risc-V IP software and tools to the foundry’s services. The Synopsys Processor IP Solutions business includes ARC-V (Risc-V) and ARC CPU IP, DSP IP, NPU (network processing unit) IP, software development tools, including ARC MetaWare development ...
Synopsys completing its acquisition of Ansys, the dominance of TSMC, the integration of monolithic III-V lasers on silicon substrates, and powering long-duration space mission...
Synopsys has completed the acquisition of Ansys. The $35bn deal brings Ansys’ predictive simulation and analysis tools into the Synopsys family for design tools using AI. “The increasing complexity of developing intelligent systems demands design solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, enhanced by AI,” said Sassine Ghazi, president and CEO of Synopsys (pictured). “Today marks a transformational ...
Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link, EV makers postponing US production plans, the UK Government backing Eutelsat, the Synopsys takeover of Ansys, and a Japanese foundry filing for bankruptcy...
This week we're talking about the Synopsys takeover of Ansys, Interface IP and AI datacentres, and ESA's optical communication link with a spacecraft in deep-space...
Embedded World 2025: Synopsys says its Virtualizer Native Execution prototyping tool will accelerate software development for edge devices. It extends the Virtualizer tool suite and model libraries to Arm hardware, allowing virtual prototypes to be built, executed and tested directly on Arm-based machines. The Native Element factor in the new tool means that users can execute virtual prototypes directly on ...
Synopsys has added the HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation system to its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio. Both the HAPs-200 and ZeBu-200 are based on the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC and built on the company’s emulation and prototyping, or EP-Ready, hardware for use with reconfiguration and optimisation software. ZeBu Server 5 delivers scalability beyond 60bn gates, to target large ...
