Globalfoundries has completed the acquisition of Synopsys’ ARC processor IP solutions business. The deal includes the engineering team located at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven. The ARC processor IP business becomes part of GF’s expanding physical AI portfolio within MIPS, which was acquired last year. The combination brings together RISC-V processor IP, software tools, custom design and advanced manufacturing into a single offering focused on automotive, industrial and agentic edge applications.
Agentic AI is rapidly extending beyond the data center into the physical world, driving new physical AI and autonomous platforms across automotive radar and advanced driver-assistance systems to industrial robotics, smart factories and the next generation of IoT devices. These systems must now sense, think, act and communicate in real-time under tight power and latency constraints, making differentiated silicon spanning compute, AI acceleration, sensing and connectivity critical to performance and adoption. “With MIPS and ARC united, GF delivers the software, IP and custom silicon capabilities our customers need to build differentiated, application-specific solutions across automotive, industrial robotics and embedded systems,” says Sameer Wasson, CEO of MIPS.
The Eindhoven site is responsible for overall AI processor software and tools product development. It focuses on providing a neural network SDK for the NPX IP, consisting of compilers, runtimes, libraries and advanced simulation models. ARC NPX is a family of high-performance, low-power neural processing units (NPUs), designed to accelerate AI and deep learning tasks on edge devices.
