Cadence Design Systems
Sells chip-design software and design blocks used to build AI and other chips.
- Revenue
- $1.58B in the quarter to June 2026, up 24.2%. Full-year 2026 guidance about $6.3B
- Growth
- Quarterly revenue up 24.2% on a year earlier (Q2 2026)
- Based in
- San Jose, US
- Listed
- Public (CDNS)
It is one of the two tool makers that nearly every chip company depends on, so AI design demand lifts it directly.
It depends on a small set of very large chip customers.
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