Research notes and analysis from the Futurum practice areas.
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Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines the Cadence ChipStack RTL Generation Agent, its claimed 24% area and 18% power gains over foundation model code generation, and Honda's validation on automotive SoCs.
Brendan Burke and Olivier Blanchard, Research Directors at Futurum, examine ADI's decision to rebuild its SHARC automotive audio DSP on Cadence Tensilica IP and what the ADI SHARC-FX shift means for edge AI in the software-defined vehicle.
Rapidus’ IIM-1 fab completes construction in Chitose, leveraging Cadence Innostack AI Super Agent for its Raads platform and IBM 2nm transistor IP to compete with TSMC, Intel, and Samsung in inference accelerator production.
Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines how NVIDIA and AMD are driving agentic chip design at DAC 2026 through collaborations with Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens spanning models, physics libraries, runtimes, and CPUs.
