NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) inches down 0.67% in pre trading session on Friday as the firm technology conference in March, it unveiled new ways its most advanced chips are now being put to work to accelerate the development and manufacture of even more advanced future semiconductors.
As it reduces the size of chips to the atomic level, the semiconductor industry is starting to run against physical restrictions. Nvidia is nevertheless developing into a crucial ally in maintaining the peak performance of its competitors as the once-parabolic advancement in chip performance starts to flatten. Software industry giant Synopsys is one of these crucial partners (SNPS). Here’s why the recent Nvidia developments are great news for this software-based play on the fundamental components of computer technology.
Moore’s Rule It is becoming increasingly challenging to continue making progress on the foresighted prognosis made by the late great Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, decades ago. Since several years ago, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said that Moore’s Law is no longer valid since it is becoming more difficult to double chip performance every 18 months.
Nvidia is now assisting in expanding the scope of Moore’s Law due to its work in artificial intelligence (AI). Extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is the method used to create today’s most sophisticated processors. The complicated and pricey EUV equipment utilized by leading chipmakers like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is presently exclusively produced by ASML Holding.
It takes the use of specialist software called electronic design automation (EDA), which functions something like a drawing tool but for chips. The pioneer in EDA software is Synopsys. Chip design creates complicated patterns of silicon and copper wire at the nanoscale scale (1 million nanometers per millimeter). AI is utilized to expedite the procedure; this is where EDA’s “automation” originates.
Chipmakers like TSMC will benefit greatly from Nvidia’s innovative innovation since it will speed up manufacturing and enhance yield (the number of chips produced from a single wafer). It may also aid in the expansion of the use of the pricey EUV technology from ASML.
