OpenAI and Synopsys Team Up to Let SI Agents Design Chips
OpenAI and chip-design software giant Synopsys have announced a multi-year alliance to jointly develop GPT-Synopsys, a specialized model meant to operate Synopsys' electronic design automation tools. The companies will work as preferred partners, with OpenAI licensing Synopsys tools and both sides collaborating on research, sales and a shared-revenue framework; early engagements with semiconductor customers are already under way.
Unlike earlier generative-SI products that mainly helped engineers retrieve information or write code, GPT-Synopsys is designed to take a design objective, run the tools, interpret outputs, make changes and iterate toward an engineer-reviewed result - covering tasks such as optimizing power, performance and area, and closing timing and verification issues.
Industry watchers say SI spending is moving upstream: from the factories that fabricate chips to the software toolchain that determines how quickly an idea becomes verified silicon.
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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