Cadence Unveils Millennium M2000 AI Supercomputer with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for Advanced Simulations

Cadence releases new AI supercomputer -- uses Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 GPUs to improve simulation run time

This supercomputer is purpose-built for AI-powered chip design and more. Cadence has announced a new AI supercomputer featuring Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, HGX B200 systems, and CUDA-X tools designed to reduce simulation run time. This system, called the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, was announced during the company's CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025 event and is an addition to its Millennium Enterprise Platform. According to Cadence, the M2000 is designed for electronic design automation (EDA), system design and analysis (SDA), and drug discovery applications, allowing it to deliver up to 80 times better performance versus CPU-based systems. The company initially specialized in EDA, allowing companies to build chips more efficiently. Some of its customers include Intel, AMD, Apple, and Nvidia, and they use Cadence's tools to help develop next-generation chips. However, it has also expanded in other industries; for example, GE and NASA use its systems for both computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and SDA. It has also entered the life sciences field, with Pfizer and AstraZeneca using its products for drug discovery and molecular modeling. Cadence's use of Nvidia systems, plus its deployment of AI tech within the M2000, allowed it to optimize the M2000 for efficiency. The company says that it can deliver this increased capability while simultaneously reducing the power demand by 20 times across various applications. "The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer will drive the next leap in AI-accelerated engineering by leveraging our massively scalable solvers, dedicated Nvidia Blackwell-accelerated computing, and AI to help designers continue to push the limits of what is possible," said Cadence CEO and President Anirudh Devgan. "Purpose-built for the most advanced AI models of today and tomorrow, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer delivers unprecedented designer productivity to propel the next generation of AI infrastructure, physical AI systems, and drug discovery." Specialized AI has helped supercharge many industries, and we've seen many companies offer systems designed to run them at different price points. For example, the TinyBox AI accelerator, which uses six RX 7900XTX or RTX 4090 GPUs, starts at $15,000, making it useful for SMEs. On the other end of the spectrum, we have massive AI data centers like Musk's Memphis Supercluster, which is estimated to cost between $3 to $4 billion just for the hardware. The Millennium M2000 sits nicely in the middle of this price range, with each unit estimated to cost $2 million. Aside from no longer needing to contract data centers or hyperscalers for computing time, companies that acquire an M2000 can also ask Cadence to customize it to specifically fit their needs.

Cadence Teams With Nvidia On Supercomputer Aimed At Faster AI And Engineering Simulations - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Cadence Design Systems (NASDAQ:CDNS)

At its annual flagship user event, Cadence Design Systems, Inc. CDNS on Wednesday announced a significant expansion of its Cadence Millennium Enterprise Platform with the introduction of the new Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring Nvidia Corp NVDA Blackwell systems. This supercomputer delivers AI-accelerated simulation across engineering and drug design workloads. The new Cadence Millennium M2000 Supercomputer accelerates the build-out of AI infrastructure, advances physical AI machine design, and pushes the frontiers of drug design. Also Read: These Semiconductor Stocks To Face Least Tariffs Impact Compared To Intel The new supercomputer integrates Cadence's solvers with Nvidia HGX B200 systems, Nvidia RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and solver software. This powerful combination delivers dramatic reductions in simulation run times and up to 80X higher performance versus CPU-based systems for electronic design automation (EDA), system design and analysis (SDA), and drug discovery applications. The supercomputer provides a tightly co-optimized hardware-software stack that enables breakthrough performance with up to 20X lower power across multiple disciplines. It accelerates the build-out of AI infrastructure, advances physical AI machine design, and pushes the frontiers of drug design. Cadence also announced the Cadence Tensilica NeuroEdge 130 AI Co-Processor (AICP), which complements any neural processing unit (NPU) and enables end-to-end execution of the latest agentic and physical AI networks on advanced automotive, consumer, industrial, and mobile SoCs. Nvidia pledged $500 billion to build AI supercomputers exclusively in the U.S., drawing swift support from the Trump administration. Price Actions: NVDA stock is up 0.71% to $117.89 at last check Thursday. CDNS is up 0.59%. Read Next: Nvidia, Broadcom Lead Fund Manager Buys Even As Semiconductor Sector Cools: Analysts Image via Shutterstock CDNSCadence Design Systems Inc$310.480.69%Stock Score Locked: Want to See it? Benzinga Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock - anytime. Reveal Full ScoreEdge RankingsMomentum73.53Growth72.06Quality68.22Value6.46Price TrendShortMediumLongOverviewNVDANVIDIA Corp$117.830.66%Market News and Data brought to you by Benzinga APIs

Cadence Unveils Millennium M2000 Supercomputer with NVIDIA Blackwell Systems to Transform AI-Driven Silicon, Systems and Drug Design

Cadence best-in-class simulation software integrated with NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated compute enables unmatched scale and speed Delivers up to 80X higher performance and 20X lower power Optimized for a broad range of workloads across EDA, system design and drug design At its annual flagship user event, CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025, Cadence (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced a major expansion of its Cadence® Millennium™ Enterprise Platform with the introduction of the new Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, which delivers AI-accelerated simulation at unprecedented speed and scale across engineering and drug design workloads. The new supercomputer integrates Cadence's industry-leading solvers with NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and solver software. This powerful combination delivers dramatic reductions in simulation run times and up to 80X higher performance versus CPU-based systems for electronic design automation (EDA), system design and analysis (SDA), and drug discovery applications. The supercomputer provides a tightly co-optimized hardware-software stack that enables breakthrough performance with up to 20X lower power across multiple disciplines, accelerating the build-out of AI infrastructure, advancing physical AI machine design and pushing the frontiers of drug design. "The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer will drive the next leap in AI-accelerated engineering by leveraging our massively scalable solvers, dedicated NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated computing and AI to help designers continue to push the limits of what is possible," said Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence. "Purpose-built for the most advanced AI models of today and tomorrow, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer delivers unprecedented designer productivity to propel the next generation of AI infrastructure, physical AI systems and drug discovery." "From biology to chip design, the world's most complex engineering challenges require simulation at scales and speeds only possible with accelerated computing," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "Built with NVIDIA Blackwell, CUDA-X and Cadence's computational software, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer is a new class of infrastructure: an AI factory for science to drive breakthroughs that will transform discovery across disciplines." The next generation of infrastructure AI, physical AI and sciences AI requires sophisticated computational capability in data centers and edge devices. Building upon the success of the Millennium M1 Supercomputer, which delivers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency for high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer harnesses Cadence's broad array of EDA, SDA and molecular software solvers to perform massive simulations that were previously impossible, transforming approaches to semiconductor and 3D-IC design, data center digital twins, drug discovery modeling and other engineering challenges across the hyperscale computing, automotive, data center, and aerospace and defense markets. Advancing Semiconductors and 3D-IC Design The industry's first purpose-built emulator for AI design, the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer combines all the multiphysics capabilities needed to analyze and optimize 3D-IC and advanced packaging designs, including power, thermal, stress/warpage and electromagnetics. This enables superior quality in a fraction of the time, ensuring engineering teams can achieve greater reliability and efficiency in their product development cycles. For example, traditional semiconductor chip-level power integrity simulations are limited to small windows of time. Customers can now deliver simulations in less than a day with one Millennium M2000 Supercomputer that previously would have taken hundreds of CPUs almost two weeks. Accelerating Autonomous System Design The AI infrastructure buildout requires a significant investment in data centers and compute infrastructure. Doing this in an energy- and resource-efficient manner is critical to delivering the next generation of foundation models from AI factories. Digital twins improve operational efficiencies, reduce risk and lower total power consumption. The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer accelerates the design and operation of these data center digital twins and the modeling process required for the racks, boards and equipment that power them. The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer also enables high-accuracy and high-capacity virtual simulations of machines that will embody AI outside of data centers, such as autonomous transportation, drones and robotics. To design these systems effectively, the combination of accelerated compute and computational software unlocks improved designs in a shorter time by delivering virtual wind tunnels that can precisely simulate real-world conditions. Designers of electronic and mechatronic systems can now make crucial decisions in less than a day versus multiple days, saving both time and energy compared to using a CPU-based Top 500 supercomputer cluster with hundreds of thousands of processors. Advancing Life Science Innovation Cadence Molecular Sciences accelerates drug discovery by enabling pharmaceutical customers to perform more simulations in less time with the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer. Cadence's Orion® Molecular Design Platform on Cadence OnCloud, available on the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, equips researchers with unmatched computational power to speed up the discovery of potential drug candidates and enhance process scalability. As a result, customers can explore more design scenarios and iterations within tighter deadlines, leading to faster innovation and improved product development. Availability and Customer Endorsements The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer is available both in the cloud and as an on-premises appliance. Multiple customers have provided endorsements, including Ascendance, Boom Supersonic, MediaTek, Supermicro and Treeline Biosciences, which can be viewed in the quote sheet.