New Cadence supercomputers aim to speed creation of chips, software

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Cadence Design Systems is pictured outside the company's offices in San Jose, California, U.S., January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Nellis/File Photo

(Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems on Wednesday introduced the latest version of supercomputer based around a custom computing chip designed to speed up the creation of other computing chips and the software that will run on them.

Cadence makes software that Nvidia, Apple and many other companies use to design chips with billions of transistors, the tiny on-off switches that make computers work. That design process can take a year or more.