Digitimes October 27, 2026 By DIGITIMES neutral

Cadence bets on its own chip design AI models as Synopsys teams up with OpenAI

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Cadence Design Systems is betting that chipmakers will want AI models trained on its own design tools and run wherever customers choose. That puts it on a different route from rival Synopsys, which is building its specialized model with OpenAI on OpenAI-hosted infrastructure. On October 26, alongside its third-quarter results, Cadence introduced Maestro, a portfolio of domain-specialized AI models that power its AI super agents for chip and system design.

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