Synopsys and Amazon have entered into a multi-year agreement valued at more than $1 billion focused on custom silicon, cloud infrastructure and AI-powered engineering.
The agreement will expand Amazon’s use of Synopsys silicon intellectual property to include application-optimized silicon IP, with Amazon serving as the lead customer for the expanded offering.
Synopsys is also moving toward a license-plus-royalty business model, giving both companies the potential to benefit as production volumes increase.
The collaboration builds on more than 15 years of work between Amazon and Synopsys. Amazon will expand its use of Synopsys electronic design automation, simulation and analysis technologies, and agentic AI tools across its silicon engineering efforts.
The companies will also work together to accelerate Synopsys multiphysics software on AWS Trainium and Graviton processors and apply AI across silicon-to-system engineering workflows.
Synopsys, meanwhile, will adopt…
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