Re:Jeff Dean Responds to EDA Industry about AlphaChip
by octoberfranklin on Sunday December 01, 2024 @07:16AM
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and are pretty much single-handedly responsible for the fact that the hardware startup ecosystem is moribund
Yes but not single-handedly -- it's them and the foundries, hand-in-hand.
No startup can compete with Synopsys because TSMC doesn't give out the true design rules to anybody smaller than Apple for finfet processes. Essentially their DRC+LVS software has become a DRM-encoded version of the design rule manual.
Yes but not single-handedly -- it's them and the foundries, hand-in-hand.
No startup can compete with Synopsys because TSMC doesn't give out the true design rules to anybody smaller than Apple for finfet processes. Essentially their DRC+LVS software has become a DRM-encoded version of the design rule manual.