IT Home On October 9, according to Nikkei Asia, Synopsys, a leading chip design software company, said that despite the U.S. government tightening export controls on artificial intelligence and semiconductors, the company plans to use its tools' AI versions by collaborating with Chinese large language model (LLM) builders.Assist Chinese local enterprises in accelerating chip research and development processes。
On September 30, local time, Newthink Technology announced a multi-year cooperation agreement with OpenAI. The two parties will collaborate to develop a specialized AI model, GPT-Synopsys, aimed at automating chip design processes and significantly reducing development time.
Ravi Subramanian, Chief Product Management Officer of Newthink Technology, revealed in an interview that the company is working on establishing a partnership with Chinese AI laboratories.So as to customize similar design tools tailored for the Chinese market。
In recent years, Newthink Technology has faced considerable pressure. It is widely believed that emerging AI technologies may disrupt and replace EDA software, which is the foundation of its business. However, during the Annual Investor Day event on September 30, Newthink Technology stated that thanks to the deep integration of AI technology into its own tools, revenue for the 2027 fiscal year is expected to increase by 15% year-on-year, reaching $11.15 billion (IT Home note: at current exchange rates, this is approximately 74.875 billion yuan).
Subrahmanyam pointed out that as the demand for AI model training and inference deployment across various industries surges, the pace of chip iteration toward higher performance has accelerated significantly. Chip manufacturers urgently need a new generation of AI-enabled design tools developed jointly by Newtek and OpenAI to keep up with market trends.
We see that the iteration pace of chip development is accelerating rapidly, which means the entire design process for a chip must be compressed within one year... At the same time, the number of chip projects in design is also increasing day by day.