At CES 2026, Nvidia unveiled a strategic collaboration with Siemens aimed at revolutionizing the chip-design process. The partnership will see Nvidia's powerful GPUs accelerate Siemens' electronic design automation (EDA) software, significantly speeding up the development of new computer chips.
Modern computer chips are almost universally designed using sophisticated EDA tools. However, as chip features shrink and the number of transistors on a single chip multiplies, the design process has become increasingly complex and computationally intensive. This new initiative seeks to overcome these challenges by harnessing the parallel processing capabilities of Nvidia GPUs.
Beyond accelerating individual chip design, Nvidia and Siemens share a broader vision: to create comprehensive digital facsimiles, or "digital twins," of everything from individual chips to entire server racks. These advanced simulations will allow engineers to thoroughly test the functionality and performance of designs in a virtual environment before any physical components are ever built.
"What we are hoping for, and the reason why we're partnering so closely together, is so that we could build that Vera Rubin in the future as a digital twin," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated during the Siemens keynote at CES.
