Richard Gu

Vice President of Investor Relations, Cadence Design

Search every verified Richard Gu interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In an August 2021 appearance, Richard Gu discussed Cadence Design Systems' expansion into computational fluid dynamics (CFD) following the acquisitions of NUMECA and Pointwise earlier that year. He described the move as a "natural adjacency" from the company's core electronic design automation (EDA) business, noting that Cadence's 30 years of experience in computational software could be applied to CFD. Gu stated that the company would focus on multiphysics simulations leveraging heterogeneous computing environments, including cloud and GPU resources. Gu outlined plans for the NUMECA Omnis environment to serve as a platform for the complete CFD workflow, including meshing, solving, and post-processing. He said that Cadence was developing new solvers designed to natively take advantage of massively scalable cloud infrastructure, with near-ideal scaling up to tens of thousands of CPU cores and hundreds of GPUs. Gu characterized these improvements as a "paradigm shift" that would allow engineers to achieve results in less time, increase solution accuracy, or explore more design configurations.