The global semiconductor industry is expected to rebound with the recovery of downstream demand. The Chinese market, driven by geopolitical factors and emerging technologies, will see a higher growth rate than the global average. The EDA industry is a solid foundation for integrated circuits and the global digital economy. The technological revolution is pushing the semiconductor industry and EDA tools towards intelligence and high efficiency. As a key upstream link in the semiconductor supply chain, it provides support for core steps such as circuit design, functional verification, and layout routing for chip design. At the same time, it improves the manufacturing yield of chips during the wafer manufacturing process.
As transistor technology node sizes become smaller, the process cost of developing smaller semiconductor devices is growing exponentially. Digital twin technology can greatly reduce the trial-and-error cost of design and process optimization, making it almost zero. In the future, establishing virtual wafer factories and advancing digital twins throughout the entire wafer factory process has become a consensus in industry development. Through virtual wafer factories, manufacturers can perform various simulations and optimizations to improve process parameters, reduce defect rates, increase production capacity, and lower costs.
