Silvaco Group Inc (NASDAQ:SVCO) shares rose 6.4% in pre‑market trading on Monday following the announcement of a collaboration with NVIDIA to develop advanced digital twins for semiconductor design and manufacturing using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing and AI technologies. The partnership will merge Silvaco’s physics‑based modeling expertise with NVIDIA’s CUDA‑X libraries, PhysicsNeMo, Omniverse libraries, and Nemotron open models, targeting four focus areas: GPU‑accelerated physics simulation, AI‑driven surrogate modeling via PhysicsNeMo, digital‑twin visualization through NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos, and scaled engineering workflows. As an early demonstration, Silvaco completed a fully scaled 3‑D FDTD simulation of a photonic edge coupler comprising 3.2 billion mesh nodes on 32 NVIDIA GPUs linked with NVLink, finishing in under four hours; the workload did not converge on CPUs and the result showed less than 0.15 dB difference between measurement and simulation. Silvaco expects the collaboration to reduce simulation cycles from weeks to days, improve accuracy through high‑fidelity digital twins, and enhance collaboration via cloud‑based visualization. The solutions are projected to enable semiconductor process and device simulation, AI‑assisted chip development, and factory optimization. "By combining Silvaco’s deep expertise in semiconductor and multiphysics digital twins with NVIDIA’s industry‑leading computing and AI platforms, we can help customers model increasingly complex systems with greater speed, fidelity, and confidence," said Walden C. Rhines, President and Chief Executive Officer of Silvaco. The article was generated with AI support and reviewed by an editor.