NetApp vs Cadence Design Systems
Side-by-side comparison of AI visibility scores, market position, and capabilities
San Jose CA intelligent data infrastructure (NASDAQ: NTAP) ~$6.5B FY2025 revenue; ONTAP all-flash arrays + Azure/AWS/GCP cloud storage services, NVIDIA AI pipeline partner competing with Pure Storage and Dell EMC.
About
NetApp, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based intelligent data infrastructure company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: NTAP) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component — providing cloud-led, data-centric storage and data management solutions for enterprises deploying hybrid multi-cloud architectures, AI workloads, and modern application environments through approximately 11,000 employees worldwide. NetApp's product portfolio centers on its ONTAP operating system for all-flash arrays (AFF/ASA product lines), delivering unified storage for block, file, and object workloads — and its cloud storage services: Azure NetApp Files (ANF, native Microsoft Azure integration), Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (AWS native integration), and Cloud Volumes ONTAP for Google Cloud — which collectively enable enterprises to use the same ONTAP data management capabilities on-premises and in all three hyperscale clouds. For fiscal year 2025 (ending April 2025), NetApp reported approximately $6.5 billion in revenue with continued all-flash array growth and cloud storage services expanding at 20%+ annually. CEO George Kurian has led the company since 2015, executing the strategic transformation from on-premises storage vendor to intelligent data infrastructure platform. NetApp's AI data pipeline solutions — purpose-built for NVIDIA DGX and GPUDirect Storage workflows — position the company as infrastructure for enterprise AI training and inference at scale.
San Jose EDA software and hardware emulation (NASDAQ: CDNS) $4.64B FY2024 revenue (+14%); Virtuoso/Genus/Innovus chip design platform, Palladium Z2 emulator, AI design tools competing with Synopsys and Siemens EDA.
About
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based electronic design automation (EDA) software and hardware company — publicly traded on the NASDAQ (NASDAQ: CDNS) as an S&P 500 Information Technology component — providing software tools, hardware emulation systems, and IP (intellectual property) used by semiconductor and electronics companies to design and verify chips, printed circuit boards, and electronic systems through approximately 10,000 employees worldwide. In fiscal year 2024, Cadence reported revenues of $4.64 billion (+14% year-over-year) with subscription-based EDA software generating 80%+ recurring revenue as chip designers use Cadence's Virtuoso (analog/mixed-signal IC design), Genus (logic synthesis), Innovus (place-and-route for digital chips), Tempus (static timing analysis), and Palladium/Protium hardware emulation products throughout the entire chip design workflow. CEO Anirudh Devgan has executed Cadence's "Intelligent System Design" strategy: expanding from pure EDA software tools into hardware system design (Clarity electromagnetic field solver for package and PCB signal integrity), computational fluid dynamics (Omnis-Flow for electronic cooling analysis), and AI-driven chip design (Cadence AI tools — Genus AI, Innovus AI — using machine learning to automatically optimize chip synthesis and place-and-route to achieve better power, performance, and area tradeoffs than human-guided optimization). Cadence's computational software expansion (Fidelity+ CFD, Clarity 3D, Celsius electro-thermal analysis) adds a new revenue stream from automotive, aerospace, and electronics companies performing fluid simulation, thermal analysis, and electromagnetic analysis alongside chip design workflows.
AI Visibility Head-to-Head
Key Details
Capabilities & Ecosystem
Also Compare
Track AI Visibility in Real Time
Monitor how your brand performs across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Grok daily.