Last week in Silicon Valley, there was a meeting of the minds in artificial intelligence and AI-driven chip design. Two industry juggernauts, Nvidia and Synopsys, held conferences that brought developers and tech innovators together in very different, but complementary ways. Nvidia, world renowned for its AI acceleration technologies and silicon platform dominance, and Synopsys, a long-standing industry bellwether in semiconductor design tools, IP and automation, are both capitalizing on the huge market opportunity that is now flourishing for machine learning and artificial intelligence.