SAN JOSE, Calif. – Electronics companies need to step up their collaboration to deal with growing complexity of the technology, said executives from Cadence, TSMC and ARM at an annual Cadence user event here.
“Silicon integration and complexity will be a real challenge,” said Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive of Cadence, noting 20 nm chips with eight billion transistors in the works.
Tan cited Apple, Oracle, Google and Facebook as examples of companies engaged in “applications-driven system design,” spanning everything from silicon to software. “This will begin changing the landscape of semiconductor design,” said Tan.
Mobile, video and cloud are driving system design, said Cadence's Tan.