A week after Empyrean Technology has been added to the blacklist in the latest wave of U.S. chip export controls, the Chinese developer of chip design system has ceded control to its largest state-owned shareholder, China Electronics Corporation (CEC). According to a report from South China Morning ...

On October 30, local time, Siemens announced that the company had signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering, a leading software provider in the industrial simulation and analytics market. This move strengthens Siemens' position as a leading technology company and its leadership in the indust...

X-Epic, a prominent Chinese electronic design automation (EDA) start-up, is said to be reducing its workforce by up to 50%, according to a report by South China Morning Post. As chip design is an indispensable part to semiconductor manufacturing, the incident raises concerns about China's push for t...

One major challenge for China's IC design industry is the lack of advanced domestic Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools. Due to US export controls, suppliers like Cadence and Synopsys are unable to provide chip design software to China. Additionally, the absence of domestic EDA tools capable ...

China's EDA Industry into Fast Development with Efforts of Downstream Industries, Capital and Policies Propel Within the broader context of China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency in recent years, the domestic EDA (Electronic Design Automation) industry in China has undergone remarkable g...