As the news from Ukraine gets more and more disturbing, the list of Western tech firm that have suspended business operations in Russia gets longer: among them, Intel. Before moving to this week’s tech news round-up, a quick mention of a market forecast concerning datacenters: according to market research firm TrendForce, the penetration rate of Arm architecture in datacenter servers will reach 22% by 2025.
Synopsys launches an EDA cloud SaaS solution
Synopsys has announced a new cloud-optimized EDA deployment model based on a single-source, pay-as-you-go approach. Called Synopsys Cloud, the service provides access to the company’s cloud-optimized design and verification products, with pre-optimized infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The initiative aims at overcoming the limitations of conventional cloud-based EDA design, such as the difficulties in forecasting compute needs – leading to underestimation – or predefined design and verification capacity of the “bring your own cloud” (BYOC) approach. Synopsys is also working with major foundries to streamline access to required manufacturing collateral for use with its cloud-optimized products.
