Nvidia has taken a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys, as the two companies data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://news.synopsys.com/2025-12-01-NVIDIA-and-Synopsys-Announce-Strategic-Partnership-to-Revolutionize-Engineering-and-Design” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://news.synopsys.com/2025-12-01-NVIDIA-and-Synopsys-Announce-Strategic-Partnership-to-Revolutionize-Engineering-and-Design” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link”>announced a long-term collaboration to accelerate electronic design automation workloads on GPUs. Under the partnership, which was announced on December 1, the two companies will co-develop tools intended to shift computationally heavy EDA tasks from CPUs to Nvidia GPUs.
Synopsys already dominates several segments of the chip-design software market, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/synopsys-upgrades-generative-ai-for-chip-development-with-synopsys-ai-copilot-design-software” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/synopsys-upgrades-generative-ai-for-chip-development-with-synopsys-ai-copilot-design-software”>including generative AI for chip development, and its tools are used across the…
