{"success":true,"data":{"pressRelease":{"id":"175350","rtpr_id":"nBw3TzShma-20261021","ticker":"CDNS","exchange":"NASDAQ","all_tickers":["CDNS"],"title":"Cadence Unveils Europe's First Sovereign AI Platform for Semiconductor, System and AI Factory Design in Collaboration with NVIDIA","author":"Business Wire","published_at":"2026-10-21T11:30:01.274Z","article_body":"Cadence Unveils Europe's First Sovereign AI Platform for Semiconductor, System\nand AI Factory Design in Collaboration with NVIDIA\n\nUpgraded Munich data center enables Cadence OnCloud with NVIDIA Vera and Grace\nCPU systems and Cadence Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer, Cadence Reality™\nDigital Twin Platform empowering European customers to design chips, systems\nand AI factories under EU data sovereignty\n\nCadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the availability of a sovereign AI data\ncenter in Munich that brings together Cadence(®) OnCloud\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Fsolutions%2Fcadence-oncloud.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=OnCloud&index=1&md5=ff73db536120edf0fc95d5ce1a47a6ff)\n, NVIDIA Vera\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fdata-center%2Fvera-cpu%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Vera&index=2&md5=a6299584920ba2f213f1569033a18a73)\nand Grace\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fdata-center%2Fgrace-cpu%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Grace&index=3&md5=031ae18baf8789e97f6eb20308266e84)\nCPU systems, Cadence Reality™ Digital Twin Platform\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Ftools%2Freality-digital-twin.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Reality%26%238482%3B+Digital+Twin+Platform&index=4&md5=71e7bb5a7a9da563353835913ec9d290)\n, and the Cadence Millennium™ M2000\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Ftools%2Fmillennium.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Millennium%26%238482%3B+M2000&index=5&md5=72f01ff799ab4ce54430ad45b439a85f)\nAI Supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. As the first EDA\nvendor to deliver a comprehensive sovereign AI platform for semiconductor,\nsystem and AI factory design in Europe, Cadence enables customers to design\nchips, advanced packaging, systems, physical AI applications and AI\ninfrastructure while maintaining data residency within European jurisdiction.\n\nThe Munich data center provides secure, European sovereign cloud\ninfrastructure for EDA, simulation and AI workloads, combining NVIDIA\naccelerated computing and NVIDIA CUDA-X with Cadence’s AI-accelerated design\nand simulation software to support compute-intensive semiconductor, system and\nAI infrastructure engineering workflows. This enables European organizations\nto innovate while addressing growing regulatory, security and sovereignty\nrequirements. Certified to ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and SOC 2 Type II standards,\nCadence OnCloud delivers trusted cloud capabilities from its Munich\ndeployment. The facility expands Cadence's European cloud footprint and can\nalso support startups participating in the EuroCDP program, complementing\nexisting European cloud resources, including leading public cloud provider\ninfrastructure in Frankfurt.\n\n“Europe's semiconductor and system design community requires secure\ninfrastructure that enables innovation without compromising data\nsovereignty,” said Paul Scannell, senior vice president of the Global\nCustomer Success Team at Cadence. “By combining NVIDIA Vera and Grace CPU\nplatforms with the Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer and making these\ncapabilities available through Cadence OnCloud, we are providing European\nengineering teams with the compute, design intelligence and flexibility needed\nto build the next generation of AI-driven chips and systems.”\n\nEnabling Sovereign AI Infrastructure Across Europe\n\nThe Cadence Reality™ Digital Twin Platform is helping customers design,\nvalidate and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww5.cadence.com%2Fsovereign-ai-site-validation.html%3Futm_source%3DPR%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_campaign%3DDataCenter_Sovereign_AI_ebook&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=AI+infrastructure&index=6&md5=7ac220728bdfc46bf09ae648c883e723)\nbefore deployment. Working alongside the NVIDIA AI stack, including NVIDIA\nOmniverse\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fomniverse%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=NVIDIA+Omniverse&index=7&md5=e134d6c9ce80fe310187ad8c496500ec)\nlibraries, the platform enables engineering teams to evaluate power delivery,\ncooling, airflow, thermal performance and equipment placement with\nengineering-grade fidelity.\n\nThe Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform supports the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX\nBlueprint\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.omniverse.nvidia.com%2Fdsx%2Flatest%2Findex.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=NVIDIA+Omniverse+DSX+Blueprint&index=8&md5=8ac9cd385966536968c6d2f39827d9ca)\n, enabling customers to incorporate applicable DSX Blueprint capabilities into\nAI factory design and operational workflows. A key capability is the\navailability of a Cadence Reality DC Elements model for the Cadence Millennium\nM2000 AI Supercomputer powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This validated\ndigital representation enables customers to simulate and optimize AI factory\nand data center environments before installation, reducing deployment risk and\naccelerating time to operation.\n\nCadence will also use its own Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform within the\nMunich facility to optimize the design and operation of its accelerated\ncomputing infrastructure, improving energy efficiency, reducing operational\nrisk and maximizing the sustainability of its AI computing environment. In a\nrecent deployment, the platform helped increase data center capacity\nutilization from 71% to 89% while improving operational availability from 90%\nto 98%, enabling operators to extract more value from existing infrastructure\nwhile maintaining reliability.\n\nTogether, Cadence OnCloud, the Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform, Cadence's AI-accelerated design and\nsimulation portfolio, and Cadence Agentic AI technologies provide an\nintegrated platform that allows European customers to design, build, and\noperate sovereign AI capabilities entirely within the EU.\n\nPartner Collaborations\n\nCadence is working with industry leaders across the AI ecosystem to accelerate\nthe deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure throughout Europe.\n\nAt NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Cadence and NVIDIA are showcasing their collaboration to\nenable AI factory design and operations through the combination of NVIDIA\naccelerated computing, the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, and the Cadence\nMillennium M2000 AI Supercomputer, helping customers design, simulate and\noptimize next-generation AI factories with engineering-grade fidelity.\n\n“Chip designs and AI infrastructure are strategic assets for European\nindustry, and sovereignty means being able to develop both while protecting\nthe data behind them,” said Tim Costa, vice president and general manager of\nindustrial and computational Engineering at NVIDIA. “With Cadence, we’re\nbringing NVIDIA accelerated computing into European cloud-based design\nworkflows and Omniverse libraries into AI factory simulation. Companies can\ndesign the silicon and validate the infrastructure to run it—from power\ndelivery to cooling—within a European environment built to protect their\ndesign data.”\n\nVertiv, global leader in critical digital infrastructure, is using the Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform to design, simulate and validate its modular\nMegaMod™ HDX AI data center. By enabling engineering teams to evaluate\npower, cooling and infrastructure performance before deployment, the platform\nhelps reduce design risk and accelerate delivery of next-generation AI\ninfrastructure.\n\n“The Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform helps Vertiv evaluate and\noptimize modular AI infrastructure before deployment, giving our teams greater\nconfidence in design decisions and reducing risk throughout the project\nlifecycle,\" said Viktor Petik, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions\nat Vertiv. \"Combined with NVIDIA-powered AI systems and NVIDIA Omniverse\ntechnologies, the platform helps accelerate decision-making and deployment,\nenabling customers to bring AI infrastructure online more efficiently.”\n\nHPE is adopting the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform for its HPE Data\nCenter AI Mod POD solution to design, benchmark and operate AI infrastructure,\nproviding deeper insight into power, thermal, cooling, and operational\nperformance.\n\n“By standardizing on the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform for our HPE\nData Center AI Mod POD solution, including deployments built on NVIDIA\naccelerated computing, we can reduce deployment risk, optimize infrastructure\nutilization and help customers maximize the performance and efficiency of\ntheir AI solutions throughout the facility lifecycle. The University of\nBristol’s Isambard-AI facility demonstrates what is possible when HPE’s\nmodular, direct-liquid-cooled infrastructure and NVIDIA accelerated computing\nare brought together to deploy highly energy-efficient sovereign AI capacity\nat speed and supports the UK's leadership in AI innovation. Cadence digital\ntwins can build on this foundation by providing deeper insight into power,\nthermal, cooling, and operational performance from planning through\noperations,” said Pascal Lecoq, CTO and director of Data Center Strategy\nOffice of the CTO, HPE.\n\nFrance-based Nation Data Center is using the Cadence Reality Digital Twin\nPlatform to design and validate sovereign, high-density AI infrastructure\nbefore deployment.\n\n“Our ambition is to provide sovereign and responsible digital infrastructure\ntailored to regional needs,” said Eric Arbaretaz, CTO of Nation Data Center.\n“With the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, we can optimize power,\ncooling, and thermal performance before deployment. Cadence's validated DC\nElements model for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems infrastructure\nis particularly valuable, allowing us to accurately simulate high-density AI\nenvironments from the earliest design stages. This enables us to deliver\nhigh-performance, sustainable infrastructure tailored to our clients’\ndigital transformation needs.”\n\nAvailability\n\nCadence OnCloud on sovereign infrastructure is available today to European\ncustomers. Additional compute capabilities, including NVIDIA Vera and Grace\nand CPU systems and Cadence Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer and Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform instances, are planned as part of the ongoing\nexpansion of the Munich data center infrastructure.\n\nAbout Cadence\n\nCadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application\nof computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design\nof silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent\nSystem Design™ strategy, are essential for the world’s leading\nsemiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products\nfrom chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of\nmarkets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive,\naerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2025, Cadence was\nrecognized by Fortune as one of the world’s top 100 best companies to work\nfor. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities—learn more at\nwww.cadence.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=www.cadence.com&index=9&md5=7bc7a54ba94ddb8fa5142d16da345118)\n.\n\nCategory: Featured\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021837578/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021837578/en/)\n\nCadence Newsroom\n\n408-944-7039\n\nnewsroom@cadence.com (mailto:newsroom@cadence.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026","article_body_html":"","raw_payload":{"data":{"id":"nBw3TzShma-20261021","title":"Cadence Unveils Europe's First Sovereign AI Platform for Semiconductor, System and AI Factory Design in Collaboration with NVIDIA","author":"Business Wire","ticker":"CDNS","created":"2026-10-21T11:30:01.274Z","tickers":["CDNS"],"exchange":"NASDAQ","article_body":"Cadence Unveils Europe's First Sovereign AI Platform for Semiconductor, System\nand AI Factory Design in Collaboration with NVIDIA\n\nUpgraded Munich data center enables Cadence OnCloud with NVIDIA Vera and Grace\nCPU systems and Cadence Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer, Cadence Reality™\nDigital Twin Platform empowering European customers to design chips, systems\nand AI factories under EU data sovereignty\n\nCadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the availability of a sovereign AI data\ncenter in Munich that brings together Cadence(®) OnCloud\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Fsolutions%2Fcadence-oncloud.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=OnCloud&index=1&md5=ff73db536120edf0fc95d5ce1a47a6ff)\n, NVIDIA Vera\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fdata-center%2Fvera-cpu%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Vera&index=2&md5=a6299584920ba2f213f1569033a18a73)\nand Grace\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fdata-center%2Fgrace-cpu%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Grace&index=3&md5=031ae18baf8789e97f6eb20308266e84)\nCPU systems, Cadence Reality™ Digital Twin Platform\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Ftools%2Freality-digital-twin.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Reality%26%238482%3B+Digital+Twin+Platform&index=4&md5=71e7bb5a7a9da563353835913ec9d290)\n, and the Cadence Millennium™ M2000\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com%2Fen_US%2Fhome%2Ftools%2Fmillennium.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=Millennium%26%238482%3B+M2000&index=5&md5=72f01ff799ab4ce54430ad45b439a85f)\nAI Supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. As the first EDA\nvendor to deliver a comprehensive sovereign AI platform for semiconductor,\nsystem and AI factory design in Europe, Cadence enables customers to design\nchips, advanced packaging, systems, physical AI applications and AI\ninfrastructure while maintaining data residency within European jurisdiction.\n\nThe Munich data center provides secure, European sovereign cloud\ninfrastructure for EDA, simulation and AI workloads, combining NVIDIA\naccelerated computing and NVIDIA CUDA-X with Cadence’s AI-accelerated design\nand simulation software to support compute-intensive semiconductor, system and\nAI infrastructure engineering workflows. This enables European organizations\nto innovate while addressing growing regulatory, security and sovereignty\nrequirements. Certified to ISO 27001, ISO 27017 and SOC 2 Type II standards,\nCadence OnCloud delivers trusted cloud capabilities from its Munich\ndeployment. The facility expands Cadence's European cloud footprint and can\nalso support startups participating in the EuroCDP program, complementing\nexisting European cloud resources, including leading public cloud provider\ninfrastructure in Frankfurt.\n\n“Europe's semiconductor and system design community requires secure\ninfrastructure that enables innovation without compromising data\nsovereignty,” said Paul Scannell, senior vice president of the Global\nCustomer Success Team at Cadence. “By combining NVIDIA Vera and Grace CPU\nplatforms with the Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer and making these\ncapabilities available through Cadence OnCloud, we are providing European\nengineering teams with the compute, design intelligence and flexibility needed\nto build the next generation of AI-driven chips and systems.”\n\nEnabling Sovereign AI Infrastructure Across Europe\n\nThe Cadence Reality™ Digital Twin Platform is helping customers design,\nvalidate and optimize next-generation AI infrastructure\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww5.cadence.com%2Fsovereign-ai-site-validation.html%3Futm_source%3DPR%26utm_medium%3Dweb%26utm_campaign%3DDataCenter_Sovereign_AI_ebook&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=AI+infrastructure&index=6&md5=7ac220728bdfc46bf09ae648c883e723)\nbefore deployment. Working alongside the NVIDIA AI stack, including NVIDIA\nOmniverse\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nvidia.com%2Fen-us%2Fomniverse%2F&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=NVIDIA+Omniverse&index=7&md5=e134d6c9ce80fe310187ad8c496500ec)\nlibraries, the platform enables engineering teams to evaluate power delivery,\ncooling, airflow, thermal performance and equipment placement with\nengineering-grade fidelity.\n\nThe Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform supports the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX\nBlueprint\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.omniverse.nvidia.com%2Fdsx%2Flatest%2Findex.html&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=NVIDIA+Omniverse+DSX+Blueprint&index=8&md5=8ac9cd385966536968c6d2f39827d9ca)\n, enabling customers to incorporate applicable DSX Blueprint capabilities into\nAI factory design and operational workflows. A key capability is the\navailability of a Cadence Reality DC Elements model for the Cadence Millennium\nM2000 AI Supercomputer powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. This validated\ndigital representation enables customers to simulate and optimize AI factory\nand data center environments before installation, reducing deployment risk and\naccelerating time to operation.\n\nCadence will also use its own Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform within the\nMunich facility to optimize the design and operation of its accelerated\ncomputing infrastructure, improving energy efficiency, reducing operational\nrisk and maximizing the sustainability of its AI computing environment. In a\nrecent deployment, the platform helped increase data center capacity\nutilization from 71% to 89% while improving operational availability from 90%\nto 98%, enabling operators to extract more value from existing infrastructure\nwhile maintaining reliability.\n\nTogether, Cadence OnCloud, the Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform, Cadence's AI-accelerated design and\nsimulation portfolio, and Cadence Agentic AI technologies provide an\nintegrated platform that allows European customers to design, build, and\noperate sovereign AI capabilities entirely within the EU.\n\nPartner Collaborations\n\nCadence is working with industry leaders across the AI ecosystem to accelerate\nthe deployment of sovereign AI infrastructure throughout Europe.\n\nAt NVIDIA GTC Berlin, Cadence and NVIDIA are showcasing their collaboration to\nenable AI factory design and operations through the combination of NVIDIA\naccelerated computing, the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, and the Cadence\nMillennium M2000 AI Supercomputer, helping customers design, simulate and\noptimize next-generation AI factories with engineering-grade fidelity.\n\n“Chip designs and AI infrastructure are strategic assets for European\nindustry, and sovereignty means being able to develop both while protecting\nthe data behind them,” said Tim Costa, vice president and general manager of\nindustrial and computational Engineering at NVIDIA. “With Cadence, we’re\nbringing NVIDIA accelerated computing into European cloud-based design\nworkflows and Omniverse libraries into AI factory simulation. Companies can\ndesign the silicon and validate the infrastructure to run it—from power\ndelivery to cooling—within a European environment built to protect their\ndesign data.”\n\nVertiv, global leader in critical digital infrastructure, is using the Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform to design, simulate and validate its modular\nMegaMod™ HDX AI data center. By enabling engineering teams to evaluate\npower, cooling and infrastructure performance before deployment, the platform\nhelps reduce design risk and accelerate delivery of next-generation AI\ninfrastructure.\n\n“The Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform helps Vertiv evaluate and\noptimize modular AI infrastructure before deployment, giving our teams greater\nconfidence in design decisions and reducing risk throughout the project\nlifecycle,\" said Viktor Petik, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions\nat Vertiv. \"Combined with NVIDIA-powered AI systems and NVIDIA Omniverse\ntechnologies, the platform helps accelerate decision-making and deployment,\nenabling customers to bring AI infrastructure online more efficiently.”\n\nHPE is adopting the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform for its HPE Data\nCenter AI Mod POD solution to design, benchmark and operate AI infrastructure,\nproviding deeper insight into power, thermal, cooling, and operational\nperformance.\n\n“By standardizing on the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform for our HPE\nData Center AI Mod POD solution, including deployments built on NVIDIA\naccelerated computing, we can reduce deployment risk, optimize infrastructure\nutilization and help customers maximize the performance and efficiency of\ntheir AI solutions throughout the facility lifecycle. The University of\nBristol’s Isambard-AI facility demonstrates what is possible when HPE’s\nmodular, direct-liquid-cooled infrastructure and NVIDIA accelerated computing\nare brought together to deploy highly energy-efficient sovereign AI capacity\nat speed and supports the UK's leadership in AI innovation. Cadence digital\ntwins can build on this foundation by providing deeper insight into power,\nthermal, cooling, and operational performance from planning through\noperations,” said Pascal Lecoq, CTO and director of Data Center Strategy\nOffice of the CTO, HPE.\n\nFrance-based Nation Data Center is using the Cadence Reality Digital Twin\nPlatform to design and validate sovereign, high-density AI infrastructure\nbefore deployment.\n\n“Our ambition is to provide sovereign and responsible digital infrastructure\ntailored to regional needs,” said Eric Arbaretaz, CTO of Nation Data Center.\n“With the Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform, we can optimize power,\ncooling, and thermal performance before deployment. Cadence's validated DC\nElements model for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems infrastructure\nis particularly valuable, allowing us to accurately simulate high-density AI\nenvironments from the earliest design stages. This enables us to deliver\nhigh-performance, sustainable infrastructure tailored to our clients’\ndigital transformation needs.”\n\nAvailability\n\nCadence OnCloud on sovereign infrastructure is available today to European\ncustomers. Additional compute capabilities, including NVIDIA Vera and Grace\nand CPU systems and Cadence Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer and Cadence\nReality™ Digital Twin Platform instances, are planned as part of the ongoing\nexpansion of the Munich data center infrastructure.\n\nAbout Cadence\n\nCadence is a market leader in AI and digital twins, pioneering the application\nof computational software to accelerate innovation in the engineering design\nof silicon to systems. Our design solutions, based on Cadence’s Intelligent\nSystem Design™ strategy, are essential for the world’s leading\nsemiconductor and systems companies to build their next-generation products\nfrom chips to full electromechanical systems that serve a wide range of\nmarkets, including hyperscale computing, mobile communications, automotive,\naerospace, industrial, life sciences and robotics. In 2025, Cadence was\nrecognized by Fortune as one of the world’s top 100 best companies to work\nfor. Cadence solutions offer limitless opportunities—learn more at\nwww.cadence.com\n(https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cadence.com&esheet=54625949&newsitemid=20261021837578&lan=en-US&anchor=www.cadence.com&index=9&md5=7bc7a54ba94ddb8fa5142d16da345118)\n.\n\nCategory: Featured\n\n\n\nView source version on businesswire.com:\nhttps://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021837578/en/\n(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021837578/en/)\n\nCadence Newsroom\n\n408-944-7039\n\nnewsroom@cadence.com (mailto:newsroom@cadence.com)\n\n\nCopyright Business Wire 2026"},"type":"article","timestamp":"2026-10-21T11:30:01.784923056Z","server_sent_at_ms":1792582201784},"received_at":"2026-10-21T11:30:02.487Z","source_url":"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261021837578/en/"},"analysis":{"id":"163374","press_release_id":"175350","analysis_json":{"industry":{"label":"Software","sector":"Information Technology"},"redFlags":[],"eventType":"product_launch","narrative":"Cadence launched Europe's first sovereign AI data center for chip, system, and AI factory design at its upgraded Munich facility, available today to European customers.\n\nThe platform combines Cadence OnCloud, the Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, and the Reality Digital Twin Platform, letting European customers keep design data under EU jurisdiction. Named adopters include Vertiv, HPE, and France's Nation Data Center.\n\nCadence cited an internal deployment where the digital twin platform lifted data center capacity utilization from 71% to 89% and operational availability from 90% to 98%. No financial terms were disclosed, but the launch deepens Cadence's strategic tie with NVIDIA and its European cloud footprint.","sentiment":"bullish","agentHooks":{"shouldPost":true,"suggestedAngle":"Cadence deepens NVIDIA alliance with first EU sovereign AI design platform — sovereignty demand as a new EDA cloud growth vector."},"keyFigures":{"customDimensions":{"operational_availability_improvement":"90% to 98%","data_center_capacity_utilization_improvement":"71% to 89%"}},"quotedText":"Europe's semiconductor and system design community requires secure infrastructure that enables innovation without compromising data sovereignty","namedEntities":{"people":[{"name":"Paul Scannell","role":"SVP, Global Customer Success Team, Cadence"},{"name":"Tim Costa","role":"VP and GM of Industrial and Computational Engineering, NVIDIA"},{"name":"Viktor Petik","role":"SVP, Infrastructure Solutions, Vertiv"},{"name":"Pascal Lecoq","role":"CTO and Director of Data Center Strategy Office of the CTO, HPE"},{"name":"Eric Arbaretaz","role":"CTO, Nation Data Center"}],"products":["Cadence OnCloud","Cadence Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer","Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform","Cadence Reality DC Elements","NVIDIA Vera CPU","NVIDIA Grace CPU","NVIDIA Blackwell","NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint","NVIDIA CUDA-X","Vertiv MegaMod HDX","HPE Data Center AI Mod POD"],"companies":[{"name":"Cadence","ticker":"CDNS","relationship":"filer"},{"name":"NVIDIA","ticker":"NVDA","relationship":"partner"},{"name":"Vertiv","ticker":"VRT","relationship":"customer/partner"},{"name":"HPE","ticker":"HPE","relationship":"customer/partner"},{"name":"Nation Data Center","relationship":"customer"},{"name":"University of Bristol","relationship":"customer (Isambard-AI facility)"}],"dollarAmounts":[]},"materialImpact":{"score":2,"reasoning":"Product/platform launch with NVIDIA collaboration strengthening Cadence's European cloud footprint, but no revenue, bookings, or guidance figures disclosed. 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