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Cadence Introduces $2 Million AI-Enabled Supercomputer

1 week ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Cadence, the company best known for making software to design chips, has got into the business of making whole computers — in a big way. At CadenceLIVE 2025, held on May 7, 2025, in San Jose, California, the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) company introduced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, establishing a new high-end offering within the company’s Millennium Enterprise products.
Onshape Gets an AI Assist

2 weeks ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

Onshape has rolled out what may be the biggest use of AI in a CAD program to date, rolling past the industry leaders. Leave it to the spunky upstart to upstage established CAD vendors. It’s as if Onshape is saying “innovation still matters” to to those who say CAD is a done deal, a mature product, that there are only slight improvements to be had. In that regard, what Onshape has done is a big deal. But if you’ve got AI fever, let’s first lower the temperature.
Finally, an Onshape U.S. Agencies Can Use

2 weeks ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

While all organizations are bent on preserving and securing their intellectual property, none may be more protective of their data than the U.S. military. It’s no wonder military personnel or defense contractors are not permitted to use the same cloud services as businesses and the public.
June 24, 2025 - nTop Computational Design Summit, Los Angeles, California

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May 7, 2025 - CadenceLIVE 2025, San Jose, California

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First Look at First Resonance

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

ION, by First Resonance, ties manufacturing together with a factory operating system for the modern factoryKeeping up with what is happening with tariffs is a daily exercise and not for the faint-hearted. Though it has its ups and downs, there is one thing for sure: International companies having factories in the U.S. have the best chance of escaping tariffs. Though unforeseen capital expenditure may seem like bad news at first, some companies may already be looking on the bright side.
China Rapid Fire Gun to Protect Against Drone Swarms

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

China may have created the mother of all rapid-fire machine guns. Reviving “Metal Storm,” invented in Australia in the 1990s, China has created a turret-mounted gun system that uses the arrayed gun-barrel design. It is said to fire an astounding 450,000 rounds per minute. That’s ten times the rate of fire of the US Navy’s Phalanx, the rotating barrel, belt-fed rapid-fire system, which fires at a measly 75 rounds per second (4,500 rounds per minute). It’s misleading to use rounds per minute.
June 12, 2025 - NXT DEV, London, U.K.

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June 11, 2025 - NXT BLD, London, U.K.

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Breaking Out of Design Prison Requires an Accomplice — a Natural, Easy-to-Use 3D Modeler - ENGtechnica

1 month ago | engtechnica.com | Roopinder Tara

If you are creating 3D models with CAD, you are depending on geometry kernels such as Parasolid, ACIS, Granite, CGM, others of that ilk or their derivatives. You probably don’t know what you are missing. The problem lies not in what you can model but what you cannot. You can certainly model almost all machine parts and structures, those that are straight or round, true, symmetric… attributes that define your idea of perfection.