Today, NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. announced a broader strategic partnership to revolutionize design and engineering across various industries. Additionally, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share.
The expanded partnership will integrate the strengths of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys’ market-leading engineering solutions to deliver capabilities enabling R&D teams to design, simulate and verify intelligent products with greater precision, speed and at lower cost.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA told investors, “CUDA GPU-accelerated computing is revolutionizing design — enabling simulation at unprecedented speed and scale, from atoms to transistors, from chips to complete systems, creating fully functional digital twins inside the computer. Our partnership with Synopsys harnesses the power of NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to reimagine engineering and design — empowering engineers to invent the extraordinary products that will shape our future.”
Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys stated, “The complexity and cost of developing next-generation intelligent systems demands engineering solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, accelerated by AI capabilities and compute. No two companies are better positioned to deliver AI-powered, holistic system design solutions than Synopsys and NVIDIA. Together we will re-engineer engineering and empower innovators everywhere to more efficiently realize their innovations.”
The multi-year partnership expands on existing technological collaborations between the companies and includes the following initiatives:
- Using NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and AI-Physics technologies, Synopsys will further accelerate and optimize its broad portfolio of compute-intensive applications spanning chip design, physical verification, molecular simulations, electromagnetic analysis and optical simulation.
- Building on the current AI collaboration to enable agentic AI workflows, the companies are integrating Synopsys AgentEngineer™ technology with the NVIDIA Agentic AI technology stack — including NVIDIA NIM microservices, NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit software, and NVIDIA Nemotron models.
- The companies will collaborate to enable the next generation of virtual design, testing and validation through the use of highly accurate and sophisticated digital twins for industries such as semiconductor, robotics, aerospace, automotive, energy, industrial and healthcare.
- Synopsys and NVIDIA plan to make the power of accelerated engineering solutions accessible to engineering teams of all sizes by enabling cloud access for GPU-accelerated engineering solutions.
- To drive market adoption, the companies also have agreed to develop joint go-to-market initiatives to broadly reach engineering teams across multiple industries with both on-premise and cloud-ready solutions.
Nvidia stock dropped about 1.5% after the announcement, while shares of Synopsys increased 7%.
By CEO NA Editorial Staff
