NVIDIA, Synopsys announce partnership for engineering, design enhancements

NVIDIA and Synopsys announced an expanded, strategic partnership that the companies said will revolutionize design and engineering across industries.

The companies said that R&D teams, from the semiconductor industry to aerospace, automotive industrial and beyond, face significant engineering challenges including increasing workflow complexity, escalating development costs and time-to-market pressure.

NVIDIA invests $2 billion in Synopsys stock

NVIDIA and Synopsys said this expanded partnership will integrate the strengths of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Synopsys’ engineering offerings to deliver capabilities enabling R&D teams to design, simulate and verify intelligent products with greater precision, speed and at lower cost.

“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,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “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.”

In addition, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share.

“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,” said Sassine Ghazi, president and CEO of Synopsys. “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.”

Joint development to enable the future of engineering on accelerated computing

The companies said the multiyear partnership builds on the strong, existing technology collaborations between the companies, and includes the following initiatives:

• Broadly accelerate Synopsys applications: 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, optical simulation and more.
• ​Advance agentic AI engineering: Building on the existing 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 - to enable autonomous design capabilities for electronic design automation (EDA) and simulation and analysis workflows.
• ​Connect the physical and digital worlds through digital twins: The companies said they 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, healthcare and beyond. These solutions will utilize NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA Cosmos and other technologies.
• ​Cloud-ready technologies: Synopsys and NVIDIA plan to make the power of accelerated engineering offerings accessible to engineering teams of all sizes by enabling cloud access for GPU-accelerated engineering solutions.
• ​Develop joint go-to-market initiatives: To drive market adoption, the companies have also agreed to develop joint go-to-market initiatives to broadly reach engineering teams across multiple industries with both on-premise and cloud-ready technologies. The companies said this go-to-market effort will utilize Synopsys’ global network of thousands of direct sellers and channel partners, building on Synopsys’ broad customer base and existing agreement to license, sell and support Omniverse technology embedded in Synopsys simulation offerings.

The companies also said this partnership is not exclusive. NVIDIA and Synopsys continue to partner with the broader semiconductor and EDA ecosystem to create shared growth opportunities for the future of engineering and design.