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

At CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2026, Cadence (NASDAQ:CDNS) announced an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to deliver accelerated solutions across agentic AI, physics-based simulation and digital twins to unlock new levels of productivity and accelerate next‑generation engineering design flows across semiconductor design, physical AI systems and hyperscale 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—accelerating innovation at true agent speed.