With U.S. EDA restrictions still in place, Beijing is reportedly blocking Synopsys’ $35 billion merger with Ansys, according to the Financial Times. Insiders reportedly reveal China’s antitrust regulator has delayed approval of the deal between the world’s largest and fourth-largest EDA giants...

While the U.S. aims to curb China’s chip industry with EDA export restrictions, the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently launched “QiMeng,” the world’s first fully AI-powered system for automated processor chip design, according to EE Times China. The report suggests that in terms of CPU ...

With the US and China kicking off a new round of talks in London to ease trade tensions, key issues like rare earth exports and Beijing’s access to US chips have been brought up on the table. However, according to CNN and Wccftech, citing CNBC, there is no chance the U.S. will lift the ban on NVID...

After Huawei’s Kirin X90 reportedly entered mass production on 5nm and Xiaomi wowed the world with its self-developed XRING O1—rumored to be built on 3nm—all eyes are now on China’s chip scene. However, with Washington blocking EDA giants like Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens from supportin...

As the U.S. tightens chip export rules, pressing Synopsys, Cadence, and Siemens to halt EDA support in China without approval, Chinese firms are pushing back. Shanghai-based UniVista Industrial Software has announced free trials of its key EDA tools for domestic users, according to ijiwei and China ...