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Cadence
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Cadence is the other EDA chair. Chip teams usually pay both Synopsys and Cadence. The duopoly is the point.
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Cadence launches Maestro, Nvidia-backed AI models for chip design agentsCadence Design Systems on Monday launched Maestro, a portfolio of AI models tuned to power its chip-design agents, built in part on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron models and…
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