India, Oct. 2 -- Rapidus Corp. announced a strategic collaboration with Keysight Technologies Japan K.K., the Japanese subsidiary of Keysight Technologies, Inc., and has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation.

Together, Rapidus and Keysight will develop a high-precision Process Design Kit (PDK). Leveraging Keysight's semiconductor parametric tester technology, analysis solution and expertise in semiconductor manufacturing process optimization, the two companies will advance the sophistication of Rapidus' Design-Manufacturing Co-Optimization (DMCO) concept to provide revolutionary improvements in precision through the development of PDKs.

To begin, the two companies will first identify the factors that contribute to improving PDK accuracy, i...