Intel, Cadence Design expand partnership

Intel Foundry Services (INTC) and Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) announced they have expanded their partnership and entered into a multiyear strategic agreement to jointly develop a portfolio of key customized IP, optimized design flows and techniques for Intel 18A technology featuring RibbonFET gate-all-around transistors and PowerVia backside power delivery. “Joint customers will be able to accelerate their SoC project schedules on process nodes from Intel 18A and beyond while optimizing for performance, power, area, bandwidth and latency for demanding AI, HPC and premium mobile applications,” the companies stated. “We’re very excited to expand our partnership with Cadence to grow the IP ecosystem for IFS and provide choice for customers. We will leverage Cadence’s world-class portfolio of leading IP and advanced design solutions to enable our customers to deliver high-volume, high-performance and power-efficient SoCs on Intel’s leading-edge process technologies,” said Stuart Pann, Intel senior vice president and general manager of IFS.