This expanded partnership combines NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing strengths with Synopsys’ market-leading engineering solutions, giving research and development teams the ability to design, simulate, and validate intelligent products with greater accuracy, speed, and lower cost.
Nvidia and Synopsys announced an expansion of its strategic partnership to revolutionize design and engineering across the industry.
Research and development teams from the semiconductor industry to aerospace, automotive, industrial, and more are facing significant engineering challenges, including increased workflow complexity, increased development costs, and time-to-market pressures. This expanded partnership combines NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing strengths with Synopsys’ market-leading engineering solutions, giving research and development teams the ability to design, simulate, and validate intelligent products with greater accuracy, speed, and lower cost. Additionally, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share.
“CUDA GPU-accelerated computing is revolutionizing design, enabling simulation of everything from atoms to transistors and chips to complete systems at unprecedented speed and scale, creating fully functional digital twins within computers. Our partnership with Synopsys will harness the power of NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to reimagine engineering and design, enabling engineers to invent amazing products that will shape our future.”
– Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA
“The complexity and cost of developing next-generation intelligent systems requires engineering solutions that more deeply integrate electronics and physics, accelerated by AI capabilities and computing. No two companies are better positioned than Synopsys and NVIDIA to deliver comprehensive AI-powered system design solutions. Together, we will re-engineer engineering to help innovators around the world deliver innovation more efficiently.”
– Sashin Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys
Collaborative development to enable the future of engineering in accelerated computing
This multi-year partnership builds on the strong existing technology collaboration between the two companies and includes the following initiatives:
- Broadly accelerate Synopsys applications. Synopsys uses NVIDIA CUDA-X™ libraries and AI physics technology to further accelerate and optimize a broad portfolio of compute-intensive applications across chip design, physical verification, molecular simulation, electromagnetic analysis, optical simulation, and more.
- Advanced agent AI engineering: Building on existing AI collaboration to enable agenttic AI workflows, the companies will integrate Synopsys AgentEngineer™ technology with the NVIDIA agenttic AI technology stack, including NVIDIA NIM™ microservices, NVIDIA NeMo™ agent toolkit software, and NVIDIA Nemotron™ models, to enable autonomous design capabilities for electronic design automation (EDA) and simulation and analysis workflows.
- Connect the physical and digital worlds through digital twins. Together, the companies will enable the next generation of virtual design, test, and validation using highly accurate and sophisticated digital twins for industries such as semiconductor, robotics, aerospace, automotive, energy, industrial, and healthcare. These solutions leverage NVIDIA Omniverse™, NVIDIA Cosmos™ and other technologies.
- Cloud-enabled solutions: Synopsys and NVIDIA plan to make the power of acceleration engineering solutions available to engineering teams of all sizes by enabling cloud access to GPU acceleration engineering solutions.
- Develop joint go-to-market initiatives: To accelerate market adoption, the companies also agreed to develop a joint go-to-market initiative to broadly deliver both on-premises and cloud-enabled solutions to engineering teams across multiple industries. This go-to-market effort leverages Synopsys’ global network of thousands of direct sellers and channel partners and builds on Synopsys’ broad customer base and existing agreements for licensing, sales and support of Omniverse technology embedded in Synopsys simulation solutions.
This partnership is not exclusive. NVIDIA and Synopsys continue to partner with the broader semiconductor and electronic design automation (EDA) ecosystem to create shared growth opportunities for the future of engineering and design.
