Nvidia has acquired a $2 billion equity stake in Synopsys as part of a multiyear partnership to combine its accelerated computing platform with Synopsys’ design and simulation tools.
Under the deal, Nvidia bought Synopsys common stock at $414.79 per share. The companies said they will work with the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) vendor to apply CUDA-based GPUs, CUDA-X libraries and AI-Physics technologies to compute-intensive workloads across chip design, verification and multiphysics simulation — areas that have traditionally relied on CPU-based compute.
The companies also plan to link Synopsys; emerging AgentEngineer technology with Nvidia’s agentic AI stack, including NVIDIA NIM microservices and the NVIDIA NeMo Agent Toolkit, to automate more of the electronic design workflow and deliver GPU-accelerated tools via the cloud.
“CUDA GPU-accelerated computing is revolutionizing design — enabling simulation at unprecedented speed and scale,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
Synopsys president and CEO Sassine Ghazi said the collaboration positions both companies to advance AI-driven system design, while emphasizing the partnership is non-exclusive, allowing Synopsys to continue working with the broader semiconductor and EDA ecosystem.
The investment adds to Nvidia’s recent push to expand its influence in the chip-design stack, following a series of AI-focused alliances across software, cloud and semiconductor sectors.