Synopsys and Samsung Electronics Collaborate to Achieve First Production Tapeout of Flagship Mobile CPU with Leading Performance on Samsung Foundry's GAA Process
SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Samsung Electronics has achieved successful production tapeout for its high-performance mobile SoC design, including flagship CPUs and GPUs, with 300MHz higher performance using Synopsys.ai™ full stack AI-driven EDA suite and a broad portfolio of Synopsys IP on Samsung Foundry's latest Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technologies. This significant achievement underscores the close collaboration between Synopsys and Samsung to deliver exceptional performance, power and area (PPA) for mutual customers, enabling a new generation of chips with generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on Samsung Foundry advanced process nodes.
- Synopsys.ai EDA suite augmented with high-performance CPU PPA optimizations delivers highest performance, power, and area optimization for GAA nodes.
- Collaboration across Synopsys.ai full-stack AI-driven EDA suite on Samsung Foundry's advanced GAA technologies enables ultimate peak performance with lower power.
- Decades-long collaboration provides mutual customers with leading AI-driven EDA suite to realize exceptional quality-of-results and productivity gains on Samsung processes.
- This is a remarkable milestone to successfully achieve the highest performance, power and area on the most advanced mobile CPU cores and SoC designs in collaboration with Synopsys," said Jongpil Lee, vice president of SLSI at Samsung Electronics.