Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it will help Siemens’ electronic design automation (EDA) software with GPUs in an effort to speed up the chip design process. Nearly all computer chips today are designed using EDA tools, and as chip features become smaller and transistors become more numerous, the process has grown more computationally intensive.
Beyond speeding up chip development, Nvidia and Siemens aim to create digital facsimiles, from the chip to the entire shelf, to test their functionality before they’re built. “What we hope for, and why we are partnering closely, is that we can build Vera Rubin in the future as a digital twin,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said today at the Siemens keynote.