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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) is a software publisher focused on electronic design automation (EDA), design IP and system design and analysis, with a strong emphasis on AI and digital twins. The CDNS news feed highlights how the company’s computational software and Intelligent System Design™ strategy support semiconductor and systems companies across hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive, aerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics.
Investors and industry followers can use this page to review company announcements on financial results, including quarterly earnings releases, backlog updates, margin disclosures and business outlooks, which Cadence distributes via press releases and related 8-K filings. These updates often include commentary from senior management and details on product and maintenance revenue, services revenue and non-GAAP metrics.
Cadence news also covers technology milestones and product introductions. Examples include LPDDR5X and LPDDR6 memory IP system solutions for AI training, inference and data center workloads, as well as announcements related to memory and interface IP for standards such as HBM, DDR5, PCIe, UCIe, UALink and high-speed Ethernet. Other releases describe the company’s Chiplet Spec-to-Packaged Parts ecosystem and Physical AI chiplet platform, developed in collaboration with partners like Arm and Samsung Foundry to support chiplet-based architectures for physical AI, data center and HPC applications.
Additional news items address strategic transactions and governance, such as the acquisition of Secure-IC, the planned acquisition of Hexagon’s design and engineering business, and board appointments including Dr. Luc Van den hove. Community-focused announcements, like the Cadence Giving Foundation’s multi-year commitment to expand the AI Hub at San José State University, provide insight into the company’s engagement with education and the broader AI ecosystem.
By following CDNS news, readers can track how Cadence’s EDA tools, design IP, AI and digital twin technologies evolve, how the company communicates its financial performance, and how strategic partnerships and acquisitions shape its role in semiconductor and system design. Bookmark this page to access an organized stream of Cadence press releases and related updates.
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.
Cadence (NASDAQ: CDNS) and NVIDIA expanded their collaboration on agentic AI and physics‑grounded design solutions on March 16, 2026. The partnership delivers accelerated design stacks on NVIDIA Grace CPUs, Blackwell GPUs and the Cadence Millennium M2000, claiming up to 80X throughput and 20X lower power.
Highlighted solvers (Clarity 3D, Celsius, Voltus, Spectre X) show up to 5X speed or 4X cost iso‑performance versus CPU alternatives; customer use cases include Honda, Micron and Larsen & Toubro Semiconductor.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) announced that Dr. Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO, will participate in a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
The talk will be webcast live at 2:35 p.m. PST on March 4, 2026, with the presentation archived on the Cadence investor site for one year; the webcast is available at investor.cadence.com.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) completed its acquisition of Hexagon's Design and Engineering business for approximately 2.7 billion, structured 70% cash and 30% Cadence stock. The deal includes an estimated 150 million of transaction-related taxes.
Cadence expects the acquired business to add $160 million to 2026 revenue and to be ~$0.28 dilutive to 2026 non-GAAP EPS, becoming accretive in 2027; integration expands Cadence's multiphysics and Physical AI capabilities.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) reported Q4 2025 revenue of $1.440B and fiscal 2025 revenue of $5.297B, representing ~14% year-over-year growth. Q4 GAAP diluted EPS was $1.42 and non-GAAP diluted EPS was $1.99. Fiscal 2025 non-GAAP EPS was $7.14. Year-end backlog reached $7.8B with $3.8B expected to be recognized in the next 12 months. Management expects fiscal 2026 revenue of $5.9B–$6.0B, GAAP operating margin ~31.75%–32.75%, and non-GAAP margin ~44.75%–45.75%.
Company highlighted strong AI-driven product momentum, ChipStack launch, double-digit growth in Core EDA and IP, record hardware customer adds, and a pending Hexagon design business acquisition excluded from guidance.
Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) launched the ChipStack AI Super Agent, an agentic AI workflow for front-end chip design and verification that automates coding, testbench creation, regression orchestration, debugging and fixes.
According to Cadence, ChipStack can deliver up to 10X productivity improvements, supports cloud and on-prem frontier models (including NVIDIA Nemotron and OpenAI GPT), integrates with Cadence verification and AI platforms used in over 1,000 tapeouts, and is in early access with major customers including Altera, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Tenstorrent.