Microsoft on Thursday released its latest examples of so-called Frontier Transformation companies that embed AI into core business processes to create value. The cases span consulting, healthcare, universities, manufacturing, banking, retail and autos. Microsoft cited deployments of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, Foundry, Microsoft Fabric and Azure-based agents, reporting gains such as higher productivity, reduced lead times and lower manual workloads, along with faster security investigations and broader risk monitoring.

Nvidia is deploying its in-house Vera CPU in semiconductor design processes to accelerate development of next-generation chips. The company said it worked with Cadence and Synopsys to optimise core electronic design automation applications. As chip design grows more complex, key EDA workloads such as logic simulation and formal verification still rely heavily on CPU performance. In tests, Cadence Jasper and Synopsys VCS delivered up to 1.5 times higher performance on some workloads with the same core count.