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CDNS vs MU
Side-by-side comparison of Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS) and Micron Technology Inc. (MU): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both companies sit in the Technology sector. CDNS focuses on Computer Software: Prepackaged Software, while MU focuses on Semiconductors.
- MU is the larger of the two at $977.44B, about 10.7x CDNS ($91.00B).
- Over the past year, CDNS is up 4.4% and MU is up 665.0% - MU leads by 660.6 points.
- MU has been more active in the news (14 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for CDNS).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Cadence Design Systems Inc.
- Micron Technology Inc.
- Price
- $329.94-0.03%
- $872.46+2.71%
- Market cap
- $91.00B
- $977.44B
- 1M return
- -15.36%
- -17.04%
- 1Y return
- +4.40%
- +665.02%
- Industry
- Computer Software: Prepackaged Software
- Semiconductors
- Exchange
- NASDAQ
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 5
- 14
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
Cadence Design Systems Inc.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. provides software, hardware, services, and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks worldwide. The company offers functional verification services, including emulation and prototyping hardware. Its functional verification offering consists of JasperGold, a formal verification platform; Xcelium, a parallel logic simulation platform; Palladium, an enterprise emulation platform; and Protium, a prototyping platform for chip verification. The company also provides digital IC design products, including Genus logic synthesis and RTL power solutions, as well as Modus software solution to reduce systems-on-chip design-for-test time; physical implementation tools, including place and route, optimization, and multiple patterning preparation; and signoff products to signoff the design as ready for manufacture by a silicon foundry. In addition, it offers custom IC design and simulation products to create schematic and physical representations of circuits down to the transistor level for analog, mixed-signal, custom digital, memory, and radio frequency designs; and system design and analysis products to develop printed circuit boards and IC packages, as well as to analyze electromagnetic, electro-thermal, and other multi-physics effects. Further, the company provides intellectual property (IP) products consisting of pre-verified and customizable functional blocks to integrate into customer's ICs; and verification IP and memory models to verify the correct interaction with dozens of design IP interface protocols. Additionally, it offers services related to methodology, education, and hosted design solutions, as well as technical support and maintenance services. Cadence Design Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Micron Technology Inc.
Micron Technology, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells memory and storage products worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Compute and Networking Business Unit, Mobile Business Unit, Storage Business Unit, and Embedded Business Unit. It offers memory and storage technologies, including DRAM, NAND, NOR, and 3D XPoint memory under the Micron and Crucial brands, as well as through private labels. The company provides memory products for the cloud server, enterprise, client, graphics, and networking markets, as well as for smartphone and other mobile-device markets; SSDs and component-level solutions for the enterprise and cloud, client, and consumer storage markets; other discrete storage products in component and wafer forms for the removable storage markets, as well as 3D XPoint memory products; and memory and storage products for the automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. It markets its products through its direct sales force, independent sales representatives, distributors, and retailers; and web-based customer direct sales channel, as well as through channel and distribution partners. Micron Technology, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Latest CDNS
- Sr. Vice President Cunningham Paul exercised 1,000 shares at a strike of $138.02 and sold $766,720 worth of shares (2,000 units at $383.36) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 0.79% to 125,586 units (SEC Form 4)
- Rapidus and Cadence Partner on Agentic AI for Advanced SoC Design
- The Benchmark Company initiated coverage on Cadence Design with a new price target
- Cadence Introduces AuraStack AI Super Agent, the World’s First Agentic AI Platform for PCB and Advanced Packaging
- Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results Webcast
- Sr. Vice President Teng Chin-Chi exercised 1,000 shares at a strike of $202.94 and sold $1,731,970 worth of shares (4,500 units at $384.88) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 145,281 units (SEC Form 4)
- Sr. Vice President Cunningham Paul sold $782,000 worth of shares (2,000 units at $391.00) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan and exercised 1,000 shares at a strike of $138.02, decreasing direct ownership by 0.78% to 126,586 units (SEC Form 4)
- Director Plummer James D sold $576,205 worth of shares (1,511 units at $381.34) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan (SEC Form 4)
- Director Brennan Ita M sold $69,740 worth of shares (180 units at $387.45) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 8,004 units (SEC Form 4)
- Cadence Announces Collaboration with Intel Foundry to Accelerate Intel 14A Process Optimization for HPC and Mobile Designs
Latest MU
- CVP, Chief Accounting Officer Allen Scott R. covered exercise/tax liability with 912 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 2% to 35,837 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Micron Strengthens Automotive Ecosystem Supply Through Strategic Customer Agreements
- Micron Announces Participation in Investor Event
- Micron Accelerates U.S. Investments, Pours First Concrete at New York Fab
- Micron Announces Up to $3 Billion Strategic Investment to Strengthen U.S. Semiconductor Ecosystem
- EVP and Chief People Officer Arnzen April S sold $43,357,473 worth of shares (40,000 units at $1,083.94) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 32% to 85,737 units (SEC Form 4)
- Micron and Ford Sign Strategic Agreement to Strengthen Long-Term Memory Supply and Industry Resilience
- Director Dugle Lynn A sold $1,495,559 worth of shares (1,300 units at $1,150.43) and gifted 700 shares, decreasing direct ownership by 11% to 17,028 units (SEC Form 4)
- SEC Form 4 filed by Director Swan Robert Holmes
- Director Liu Teyin M was granted 27 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.10% to 26,034 units (SEC Form 4)