Silvaco partners with Nvidia to advance AI-powered semiconductor digital twins

Silvaco entered a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop physics-based digital twins for semiconductor design and manufacturing using AI and GPUs.

The plan targets faster simulation via CUDA-X acceleration across device, process, photonics and multiphysics workloads.

Silvaco said it will build AI surrogate models using NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo to speed design exploration alongside high-fidelity simulation.

The digital twin environment is expected to integrate NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Cosmos for real-time visualization and collaboration across fabs and manufacturing systems.

As an early proof point, Silvaco said a 3D FDTD photonic edge coupler ran with 3.2 billion mesh nodes on 32 NVIDIA GPUs in under four hours.