AI EDA on Cloud, a super-fast emerging market opportunity in semiconductor chip design

Semiconductors and electronics are the central driving force in today's AI systems. And this industry is the front-runner in using AI to design better chips and better electronics. Whether you call it AI or high-performance computing or hyperscale systems, computer started performing better than human experts in chip design. Semiconductor chip design is becoming more and more software centric. VLSI chip designers hardly go deep into semiconductor fabrication technologies such as gate all around (GAA) FET, interconnect and many such deep node techs, as long as EDA companies take care of those changes in their latest tools.
Something to cheer about this trend is; open source is fast evolving in this area along with extraordinary performance enhancements by proprietary paid third-party software from leaders in this domain . A kind of inevitable EDA tools from Synopsys, Cadence, Ansys, Keysight and Siemens have a new competitor in the form of open source EDA tools mainly driven by Google and other cloud-based systems. Open Source is becoming more and more inevitable as much as top-3 paid products if not so much in software tools but in IP. A quick example is RISC-V vs ARM’s latest processor IP and very proprietary Synopsys’ ARC. This supports the thought of "More democratic research enviro...