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• Chip design ecosystem vendors are invited to join the Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program.
• SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced the launch of its new Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program to foster semiconductor industry interoperability through an open cloud environment.
• "The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program will further enable additional Keysight tools to be used on Synopsys Cloud, such as our Advanced Design System – making the program an excellent enabler of industry-wide interoperability for cloud-based EDA."
• "The Synopsys Cloud OpenLink program makes interoperability across diverse chip design flows seamless and efficient for our mutual customers."

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced its digital and custom/analog flows have achieved certification for TSMC’s latest N2 Design Rule Manual (DRM).
• The digital full flow supports all the latest TSMC N2 PDK requirements, offering customers several key new features.
• “Through our long-time collaboration with Cadence, customers have access to our latest N2 process technology and the enhanced Cadence digital and custom/analog flows to create next-generation AI, hyperscale and mobile ICs,” said Dan Kochpatcharin, head of the Design Infrastructure Management Division at TSMC.
• We look forward to seeing our mutual customers achieve their design goals so they can deliver high-quality designs to market faster.”
  The Cadence digital and custom/analog flows support the Cadence Intelligent System Design™ strategy, enabling customers to achieve system-on-chip (SoC) design excellence.

• The leaders of the 31 nations that comprise NATO made their way home on July 12, 2023, after concluding two days of highest-level diplomatic meetings.
• The Conversation asked him for his main takeaways form the leaders’ meeting and what it suggests about the future of NATO.

Ukraine gets some of what it wants

• Ukraine also secured further commitments to nonlethal assistance and training from NATO members.
• Ukraine was embraced by NATO publicly and given clear shows of support and bilateral assistance from key members of the alliance.
• And that shouldn’t be overshadowed by some of the noises of disappointment or talk of Ukraine not showing enough “gratitude” toward NATO members.

Stronger with Sweden after Turkey relents

• Before announcing that Ankara would no longer stand in Sweden’s way, Erdoğan had suggested that his compliance on Sweden might be conditional on the European Union’s looking favorably on Ankara’s own bid to join the economic union.
• Erdoğan’s about-face on Sweden allowed him to look magnanimous on the international stage, but it was likely rooted in domestic politics.
• It was notable that a day after Erdoğan’s announcement, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán signlaled that he too would now greenlight Sweden’s bid.

Back to adversary-based military planning

• The alliance also approved a pivot in how it will conduct defense planning and how it views its strategic goals and objectives.
• For the past 30 years, NATO planning has been geared around general threats rather than targeted at clear adversaries.
• And despite concern over the growing military threat from China, the Asian giant is not identified in the summit communiqué as a primary military threat to NATO nations.
• At the same time, the communiqué made clear that NATO is open to engagement with China.

• Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced that its digital and custom/analog flows achieved certification for Samsung Foundry’s SF2 and SF3 process technologies.
• Joint customers are actively developing SF2- and SF3-based designs using the Cadence® flows.
• Cadence’s comprehensive Cadence RTL-to-GDS design flow that supports Samsung’s SF2 and SF3 technologies provides optimal power, performance and area (PPA).
• “Through our latest collaboration with Cadence, we’ve seen early customers improve productivity with the Cadence-certified design flows and our advanced SF2 and SF3 process technologies,” said Sangyun Kim, vice president of the Foundry Design Technology Team at Samsung Electronics.