On May 8, 2025, at its annual summit, Cadence, a giant in the field of electronic design automation (EDA), unveiled a new supercomputer called Millennium M2000. Equipped with NVIDIA's latest Blackwell chips, the supercomputer is specifically designed for AI-accelerated simulation scenarios and is set to accelerate the application of Cadence's software products across various fields, including chip design, aircraft design, and new drug design.

Configuration and Performance of the Supercomputer

The Millennium M2000 supercomputer features NVIDIA's HGX B200 system and RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell server GPUs, integrated with CUDA-X libraries. Compared to traditional CPU-based systems, the M2000 achieves up to an 80x speedup in applications such as EDA, System Design Analysis (SDA), and drug discovery, while reducing power consumption by 20x. Its hardware-software co-optimization architecture enables it to support a variety of cross-domain tasks, including semiconductor 3D-IC design, data center digital twins, and drug molecule modeling. For instance, a chip-level power integrity simulation that previously required hundreds of CPUs and took two weeks to complete can now be accomplished within 24 hours using a single Millennium M2000.

Application Fields

In the realm of chip design and 3D-IC, the Millennium M2000 integrates multiphysics analysis capabilities, enabling power, thermal, stress/deformation, and electromagnetic optimization for advanced packaging design. In the field of autonomous driving systems, it accelerates the digital twin modeling of data centers, providing robust support for virtual wind tunnel simulations of autonomous transportation vehicles and drones. In the life sciences sector, the cloud-based Orion molecular design platform, powered by the Millennium M2000, significantly shortens the screening cycle for drug candidate compounds.

Market Positioning and Pricing

The most common configuration of the Millennium M2000 is priced at approximately $2 million, equivalent to about 14.448 million yuan. The device is available in both cloud and on-premises deployment modes and has been adopted by customers such as MediaTek and Supermicro. Positioned between the TinyBox AI accelerator (starting at $15,000) for small and medium-sized enterprises and the Memphis supercomputing cluster by Elon Musk's xAI (with hardware investments of $3-4 billion), the Millennium M2000 offers customized services for enterprises based on their specific needs.

Industry Impact

Cadence, initially focused on EDA and providing chip design software for companies like Apple, has expanded its business scope over the past few years to assist customers in aircraft manufacturing, biotechnology, and other fields. The launch of the Millennium M2000 supercomputer marks Cadence's official entry into the high-end AI-accelerated computing market. The advent of this supercomputer is set to have a profound impact on the development of relevant fields.

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