{"id":1019415,"date":"2026-07-08T08:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019415"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T03:00:53","slug":"synopsys-to-cut-chip-fab-manufacturing-control-software-in-shift-to-ai-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/synopsys-to-cut-chip-fab-manufacturing-control-software-in-shift-to-ai-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsys to cut chip fab manufacturing control software in shift to AI design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: U.S. chip design giant Synopsys plans to stop offering a suite of manufacturing process control software used by global semiconductor makers, six sources briefed on the matter said, as it seeks to divert resources to higher-margin offerings such as AI design. <\/p>\n<p>Synopsys in April and May informed more than 10 chipmakers including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings Corp and Qorvo Inc about \u200cthe &#8220;end of life&#8221; move \u2060that means \u2060Synopsys will not provide future new versions and will only carry out maintenance obligations, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL: U.S. chip design giant Synopsys plans to stop offering a suite of manufacturing process control software used by global semiconductor makers, six sources briefed on the matter said, as it seeks to divert resources to higher-margin offerings such as AI design. Synopsys in April and May informed more than 10 chipmakers including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings Corp and Qorvo Inc about \u200cthe &#8220;end of life&#8221; move \u2060that means \u2060Synopsys will not provide future new versions and will only carry out maintenance obligations, two of the sources said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019434,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019415\/revisions\/1019434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}