The company’s foundry services business will collaborate with a group of major firms across electronic design automation, intellectual property, and design services to provide a range of solutions and services for the design requirements of customers
The ecosystem alliance dubbed as IFS Accelerator features 17 founding partner companies. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
Intel Foundry Services (IFS) has launched an ecosystem alliance called IFS Accelerator to enable a seamless journey for foundry customers in bringing their silicon products from idea to execution.
To achieve the objective, Intel’s foundry business will collaborate with a group of major firms across electronic design automation (EDA), intellectual property (IP), and design services.
Through the collaboration, IFS Accelerator is expected to utilise the best available capabilities in the industry to expedite customer innovation on the foundry manufacturing platform of Intel.
The ecosystem alliance will bring together some of the major design ecosystem partners to offer a range of solutions and services to meet the design requirements of customers, said the US-based semiconductor firm.
Intel Foundry Services president Randhir Thakur said: “Foundry customers need access to design services, IP, and tools and flows to enable their next-generation products in different stages.
“With the goal of accelerating customer innovation, the IFS Accelerator ecosystem alliance program brings together the brightest minds and the broadest capabilities to deliver a seamless interface with Intel’s process and packaging technologies.”
The IFS Accelerator features partner companies across the three pillars of EDA, IP, and design services.
The EDA alliance partners include Ansys, Siemens EDA, Cadence, and Synopsys. In the IP alliance, the partner companies are Alphawave, Arm, Analog Bits, Andes, Cadence, SiFive, eMemory, M31, Silicon Creations, Vidatronic, and Synopsys.
The design services alliance will feature Capgemini, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra.
According to Intel, the IFS Accelerator will offer validated EDA solutions streamlined for Intel’s technology and manufacturing. The solutions are expected to cover the entire spectrum from concept to high-volume silicon production.
The ecosystem alliance will provide silicon-verified, and Intel process-specific IP portfolio for customers. These include standard cell libraries, general purpose I/Os, embedded memories, interface IP, and analogue IP.
The third alliance of design services partners will enable foundry customers to focus on developing unique product ideas. The ecosystem partners will also allot implementation tasks to designers who are experienced with Intel technology.
Intel announced the launch of Intel Foundry Services in March 2021 as part of its IDM 2.0 vision. In July of the same year, Intel disclosed that Qualcomm and Amazon will be the first major customers of the foundry services business.