Siemens EDA faces Chinese startup competitor
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SEIDA (Hangzhou, China) is an EDA startup formed in 2021 by Chinese engineers that had previously worked for Siemens EDA, formerly Mentor Graphics.
The company is focusing on optical proximity correction (OPC) according to a Reuters report. OPC is a key stage in adapting the images used in chip lithography to compensate for optical interference and other effects that are inherent in the lithographic process.
The company’s CEO is Liguo ‘Recoo’ Zhang. Zhang was another former Siemens EDA employee who had spent time employed by the from in Silicon Valley. Peilun “Allen” Chang is SEIDA’s chief operating officer, Reuters said.
Investors in SEIDA include an investment arm of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC), China’s leading foundry. The first products are expected to come to market early in 2024 and are would clearly fit in with a Chinese national goal of reducing dependence on US EDA tools.
Reuters reported a statement from Siemens EDA saying the EDA firm considers SEIDA “a potential competitor.”
There is no indication that SEIDA or any of its employees has committed any wrongdoing but Jan-Peter Kleinhans, director of technology and geopolitics at Stiftung Neue Verantwortung told Reuters it would be challenging to develop OPC from scratch without access to existing intellectual property in the two years of SEIDA’s existence.
SEIDA is said to be an acronym for Semiconductor Intelligent Design Automation.
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