$GTCH Combining Alpha EDA's systems and methods which improve the productivity of IC design process with GBT's ability to "shorten the scope of physical verification checks," will increase chip's power efficiency, performance and silicon yield. The attendant press release estimates that this combination of solutions from both firms "may save between 40%-50% of an IC design cycle, eliminating design rules automatically and during early stages."

"Companies will be able to make chips much faster…great time to market improvement, the chips will be better and more compact and condensed which will cause more yield increase allowing you to put more chip on the same silicon," Rittman said.