Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) launched what it describes as Europe's first sovereign AI platform for semiconductor and system design in Munich, in partnership with NVIDIA. The Munich data center is built on Cadence's AuraStack AI platform, and Nokia was named as a deployment customer for AuraStack on the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, targeting AI-driven design automation and high-performance computing. The article says the move extends tools Cadence already sells into dedicated infrastructure, and puts its market value at about $85.3b. It notes that whether enough large customers will standardize on the stack at scale remains unresolved.
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