Cadence and NVIDIA Expand Partnership on Agentic AI, Digital Twins, and Accelerated Computing for Semiconductor, Physical AI, and AI Factory Design

Cadence announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA at CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026 on 15 Apr 2026. The expanded collaboration combines agentic AI, physics-based simulation, and digital twins to accelerate engineering and unlock new levels of productivity across semiconductors, physical AI systems and AI factories.

By combining Cadence’s leadership in agentic AI-driven design, electronic design automation (EDA) and system design and analysis (SDA) with NVIDIA CUDA-X, AI physics and Omniverse libraries for industrial digital twin solutions, the two companies are redefining engineering productivity across three critical design domains.

“Agentic AI and digital twins are reshaping the entire engineering landscape from semiconductor design to planetary‑scale AI systems,” said Anirudh Devgan, president and chief executive officer, Cadence. “Our expanded collaboration with NVIDIA accelerates the convergence of design and physical realization, connecting the Cadence AgentStack, Physical AI Stack, and AI factory digital twins with NVIDIA’s breakthroughs in accelerated computing to deliver unprecedented speed, accuracy and trust in simulation and system development.

“We are at an inflection point in computing CUDA-accelerated computing and AI are reinventing the engineering process,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO...