Multi-year agreement expands Memory, NVIDIA NVLink-C2C and advanced Interface IP, and agentic AI-optimized GPU‑accelerated EDA and SDA flows on Samsung Foundry's second-generation 2nm node for next-generation AI infrastructure and physical AI designs

Cadence (NASDAQ:CDNS) and Samsung Foundry today announced development of a full portfolio of Memory and Interface IP, and expanded certification of Cadence's agentic AI digital, custom, 3D‑IC and system design and analysis (SDA) flows for Samsung Foundry's second-generation 2nm process technology. This collaboration delivers a signoff‑ready platform for next‑generation AI infrastructure and physical AI designs across data center, edge and intelligent devices.

Building on the companies' 2025 announcement of certified Cadence tools and IP on multiple Samsung Foundry nodes, including second-generation 2nm, this new multi-year agreement further broadens the Cadence® portfolio of Memory and Interface IP, including NVIDIA NVLink-C2C-enabled interconnect and CUDA-X GPU-accelerated libraries spanning high-speed SerDes, PCIe®, UCIe® and all leading memory interfaces on second-generation 2nm. It also deepens enablement of certified Cadence flows so ecosystem partners can implement large AI, HPC and advanced system designs with higher performance, lower power and faster time to tapeout.