X-Times Wins the "Annual Excellence in Innovation Award" at the 2026 Semiconductor Investment Annual Conference and IC Industry Awards Ceremony

At the 2026 China Semiconductor Investment Alliance Annual Conference and China IC Industry Awards Ceremony, held in Shanghai on 20 December, X-Times was honoured with the "Annual Excellence in Innovation Award" for its fully home-grown AI+EDA product - the machine learning optimization tool AmazeME-FP.

The "Annual Excellence in Innovation Award" is jointly determined by over 100 member organizations of the China Semiconductor Investment Alliance and more than 500 industry CEOs. It recognises innovations that break through technological monopolies, establish domestic autonomy in critical areas, and carry strategic importance for supply chain security.

AmazeME-FP is a digital implementation EDA tool built entirely on X-Times' proprietary technology stack. From core algorithms to application-layer software, every component is independently developed and controlled - ensuring both technological security and the freedom to evolve the product roadmap on X-Times' own terms, while enabling the team to rapidly respond to and meet customers' diverse design needs.

At the product level, AmazeME-FP extends the AmazeFP intelligent floorplanning tool with a deeply integrated machine learning engine. It can rapidly explore a solution space orders of magnitude larger than conventional approaches, with no manual parameter tuning required, and comes equipped with rich data and graphical analysis capabilities - meaningfully improving design flow efficiency and ease of use. For complex, macrocell-intensive chip designs, AmazeME-FP delivers substantial productivity gains and helps users achieve floorplanning solutions with stronger PPA (Performance, Power, Area) outcomes.

X-Times remains firmly committed to independent R&D, applying cutting-edge technologies including AI and distributed computing to the field of digital implementation EDA. By building a deep understanding of customers' varied requirements across advanced process nodes and complex design environments, and leveraging a unified proprietary platform, X-Times delivers targeted features and optimisation with speed and precision, helping customers sharpen their design competitiveness.

Looking ahead, X-Times looks forward to working closely with partners across the value chain to advance a healthy, sustainable, and high-quality ecosystem for the integrated circuit industry.

SOURCE Translated from X-Times