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Cadence Design Systems develops electronic design automation software, design IP, and system design and analysis products for semiconductor and system engineering. Company updates commonly cover AI-driven chip design, certified design flows for advanced process nodes, digital twins, physics-based simulation, and computational software used from silicon design to electromechanical systems.
Recurring developments include collaborations with semiconductor, cloud and accelerated-computing partners; customer adoption of technologies such as Tensilica Vision DSP IP and Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent; and financial results across EDA, IP, and system design and analysis. Cadence also reports on expanded simulation capabilities, including structural and multibody dynamics technologies added through the completed Hexagon design and engineering acquisition.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced an expanded, multi-year collaboration with Intel Foundry to advance Design Technology Co-Optimization (DTCO) for next-generation process technologies, starting with Intel 14A.
The companies will combine Cadence’s agentic AI-driven EDA and Design IP with Intel’s process innovation to optimize PPA, create production-ready PDKs, accelerate time-to-market, and reduce design risk for HPC and mobile customers.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced that Richard Gu, vice president of investor relations, will join a fireside chat at the Nasdaq 54th Investor Conference in London on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. The session will be webcast live at 1:00 p.m. BST and archived for one year on the Cadence investor website.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) introduced what it calls the industry’s first fully autonomous virtual AI design engineer, advancing the ChipStack AI Super Agent to Level-5 autonomy at Computex 2026.
Powered by NVIDIA Nemotron and secured by NVIDIA OpenShell, the system targets over 40X faster RTL validation and cuts five-week verification loops to less than a day.
Level-5 ChipStack and the AgentStack orchestration framework are expected for early-access customers in the second half of 2026.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced that president and CEO Dr. Anirudh Devgan will participate in a fireside chat at the Bank of America Securities 2026 Global Technology Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. PDT.
The talk will be webcast live and an archived replay will be available for one year at investor.cadence.com.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced that Aeva has licensed Tensilica Vision DSP IP to enhance signal processing in its 4D lidar systems for industrial robotics and automotive applications. The collaboration targets high-performance, low-power, real-time perception, leveraging customizable DSP architecture, optimized software libraries and the NeuroWeave SDK for advanced AI networks.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) reported Q1 2026 revenue of $1.474B, up from $1.242B year‑ago, with GAAP operating margin of 29.3% and non‑GAAP operating margin of 44.7%. Quarter‑end backlog was $8.0B with $4.0B of revenue expected in the next 12 months. The company raised fiscal 2026 revenue outlook to ~17% YoY, targeting $6.125–$6.225B and provided GAAP and non‑GAAP EPS ranges.
Business highlights include launches of AgentStack, AI Super Agents (ChipStack, ViraStack, InnoStack), record hardware demand, Core EDA +18% YoY, IP +22% YoY, and the close of the Hexagon D&E acquisition.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) expanded its collaboration with TSMC to deliver certified, end-to-end design flows, IP and signoff infrastructure for TSMC N3, N2, A16 and A14 process technologies. Agent‑ready digital and analog flows integrate agentic AI to help optimize PPA, reliability and productivity and reduce iterations to tapeout.
The partnership includes silicon‑proven IP (DDR5, PCIe 6.0, LPDDR6/5X, HBM4E), certified EDA flows across implementation, custom/analog, thermal, power integrity and signoff, and ongoing work for 3D‑IC and heterogeneous integration.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to accelerate agentic AI, physics-based simulation and digital twins across semiconductor design, physical AI systems and AI factories. The joint work targets up to 100X solver speedups, up to 10X design productivity, and AI-factory gains of ~17–32% more tokens per watt in modeled scenarios.
The partnership links Cadence AgentStack, Physical AI Stack and AI factory twins with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI physics, Omniverse and Jetson infrastructure to compress iteration cycles and drive simulation-first engineering.
Cadence (NYSE:CDNS) announced a strategic collaboration with Google to integrate Gemini with the Cadence ChipStack AI Super Agent on Google Cloud, offering an agent-driven, cloud-native platform for chip design and verification. The company says the platform can deliver up to 10X productivity improvements across digital design, verification planning, regression management and automated debug.
The collaboration tightens Gemini-enabled integration with Cadence EDA engines, leverages Google Cloud compute for LLM reasoning and EDA workloads, and provides a click-to-deploy solution now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) will webcast its first quarter 2026 financial results on Monday, April 27, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. PT. Participants include President & CEO Dr. Anirudh Devgan and SVP & CFO John Wall. A replay will be available at investor.cadence.com until the company's Q2 2026 conference call.