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Cadence Design Systems 擴大與英偉達的合作關係，並與Google在人工智慧晶片設計和加速運算領域展開合作。

-- Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) 週三分別發布新聞稿宣布，該公司擴大了與英偉達 (Nvidia, NVDA) 的合作關係，並與 Alphabet (GOOG/GOOGL) 旗下的Google達成合作。 Cadence 在聲明中表示，該公司將與英偉達合作，透過結合其電子設計自動化 (EDA) 系統與英偉達 CUDA-X 和 Omniverse 庫，提供涵蓋智能體人工智慧 (Agent-AI) 和基於物理的模擬服務，以提高半導體設計中的生產效率並加快工程流程。 Cadence 也表示，英偉達將在其晶片設計流程中採用 Cadence 的 AgentStack，兩家公司也將專注於嵌入式智慧體人工智慧，以開發自主機器。 Cadence 將與Google合作，利用Google雲端上的 Gemini 平台優化 Cadence ChipStack AI 超級智慧體，以推進向智慧體設計自動化的轉型。 Cadence 還表示，該公司正在加強 Gemini 超級代理與 Cadence EDA 引擎之間的集成，同時利用 Google 的基礎設施為 Gemini 的大型語言模型推理提供運算能力。

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