Currently, it can take between 18 months to two years to design a chip, and as compute requirements increase, it’s a process that is becoming increasingly costly and time-consuming.

Ferguson: This is a big part of what’s driving consolidation within the EDA industry. You see Siemens and Mentor and Altair ...

“The biggest change is the methodology of when we design these things. Usually, it’s a balance, because you don’t want to over-design them. But now, instead of having a 1 MB part for that, now we need ...