Synopsys Signs $1B+ Amazon Silicon IP Deal [2026]

Synopsys and Amazon announced a multi-year agreement worth more than $1 billion on September 30, 2026, putting Amazon at the center of the chip-design giant’s push into a new business model built on silicon intellectual property and agentic AI. The deal, confirmed by Synopsys and covered by Converge Digest, Pulse2 and other outlets, makes Amazon the lead customer for a new category of Synopsys products called application-optimized silicon IP — purpose-built design blocks tailored to specific workloads rather than the generic, reusable interface IP Synopsys has historically sold.