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See this post, the Google empire.
EDA: the last step before chips go into mass production. Duopoly: Cadence and Synopsys.
Chip manufacturing EDA -- link to YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QpQjZuAzBw) (Electronic Design Automation) refers to:
- specialized software, hardware, and services
- that automate the complex process of
- designing, verifying, and manufacturing integrated circuits (chips),
- enabling engineers to manage billions of transistors and features,
- ensuring functionality, performance, and power efficiency before physical production.
Major players like Cadence, Synopsys, and Siemens EDA -- link to Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/karlfreund/2025/04/29/eda-vendors-help-intel-get-the-usa-back-into-chip-manufacturing/)) dominate the market.
EDA tools cover the entire chip lifecycle, from initial concept and logical design to physical layout, simulation, and testing, with AI now enhancing productivity and shift-left development.
Shift-level development: as product development moves from early state to completion, the arrow is generally showing as moving left-to-right. As shift-level development suggests, status of products are tested earlier -- a step back to the left -- rather than progressing to the end of the process (far right) and tested there.