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Cadence Design Systems

San Jose, CA, United States

About Cadence Design Systems

Cadence Design Systems sells electronic design automation software, hardware emulation systems and design IP used to create integrated circuits, systems on chip and printed circuit boards. Nearly every major chip designer and foundry ecosystem relies on this class of tooling, which makes Cadence a core supplier to the compute supply chain. The company was formed in 1988 from the merger of SDA Systems and ECAD and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Cadence Design Systems was founded in 1988 and is based in San Jose, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators. Its shares trade as CDNS on NASDAQ.

Compute Technologies

  • ASICs
  • AI Accelerators

What Cadence Design Systems works on

ASICs

An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.

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AI Accelerators

An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.

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