Boyd Phelps
Senior VP & GM, Silicon Solutions Group, Cadence Design Systems
Boyd Phelps has served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Silicon Solutions Group (SSG) of Cadence since 2023. He is responsible for the design and development of Cadence’s hard and soft IP portfolio, investments, and roadmaps, supporting customers throughout all markets and segments in silicon design.
Prior to Cadence, Phelps worked at Intel, where he spent more than 25 years responsible for client architecture and design development as well as x86 CPU research and development for all business segments. Phelps is recognized across the industry for his CPU development achievements, as well as his contributions to process and design technology co-optimization, and was instrumental in the development and optimization of numerous leading-edge process technologies
and designs. In these capacities, he has driven significant growth as well as brought to market several new segments and advances in CPU architecture and design.
Phelps received a BS in electrical engineering from Brigham Young University and graduated from the Stanford Executive Accelerator program.