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Cadence, Intel Foundry Expand Partnership for Intel 14A Process Development

35 d ago

Cadence Design Systems Inc. and Intel Foundry have agreed on an expanded multi-year collaboration to advance Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) for Intel’s next-generation process technologies, starting with Intel 14A. The agreement combines Cadence’s agentic AI-driven electronic design automation (EDA) and Design IP technologies with Intel Foundry’s process and design expertise. The companies will focus on optimizing tools, flows, and methodologies to improve performance, power, and area (PPA) while supporting the development of production-ready process design kits (PDKs) for Intel 14A. Cadence’s AI-enabled design flows will also be used to accelerate development cycles and reduce design risk. “Advancing our relationship with Intel into a much deeper partnership is a major milestone for both companies,” said Anirudh Devgan, President and CEO of Cadence, in a press statement. Naga Chandrasekaran, executive vice president and general manager of Intel Foundry, said the collaboration strengthens the company’s technology roadmap and ecosystem by combining Intel’s process and packaging technologies with Cadence’s AI-driven design tools to enable deeper co-optimization and innovation.