Intel established the IFS Cloud Alliance
Major providers of electronic design automation services, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Ansys, Cadence, Siemens EDA, and Synopsys, have all become initial members of the program.
Compared with traditional chip design methods, high computing hardware performance is usually required to support software operations, thereby creating complex integrated circuit patterns, and performing operations and storage through internal servers based on confidentiality and other factors.
“By leveraging the scalability of cloud-based design environments, the IFS Cloud Alliance will enable broader access to Intel’s advanced process and packaging technologies. Our partnerships with leading cloud providers and EDA tool suppliers will provide a flexible and secure platform where customers can scale compute requirements instantly on production-proven design environments in the cloud,” says Randhir Thakur, president of Intel Foundry Services
Just as companies such as Google began to provide chip design services through cloud platforms, Intel also hopes to attract more companies who want to build their own chip products through the IFS cloud alliance program. With the IFS processor foundry business department to provide services, it will be able to complete the chip product design through the cloud platform, and then use the Intel foundry service to produce chip products.
The IFS Cloud Alliance program, in addition to meeting the requirements of Intel’s process design suite, can also provide electronic design automation services through Ansys, Cadence, Siemens EDA, and Synopsys. It allows the industry to safely design its own chips through the cloud platform, and speed up the time-to-market of chip products through Intel’s foundry production services.
