Synopsys and Amazon Announce Strategic, Multi-year IP Agreement for Custom Silicon; Collaboration Also Extends to Cloud and AI-Powered Engineering
Key Highlights
- ➤Multi-year agreement exceeds $1B, expanding Synopsys (SNPS) silicon IP business
- ➤Amazon becomes Synopsys’ lead customer for application-optimized silicon IP
- ➤Synopsys adopts AWS services and Bedrock to accelerate product development
- ➤Collaboration expands to AI-powered EDA, simulation, and agentic engineering workflows
Expert Statements
Peter DeSantis, SVP, foundational AI, custom silicon, quantum computing at Amazon
“Amazon has invested in custom silicon for more than a decade, and it has fundamentally changed what's possible for AWS and our customers.”
Peter DeSantis, SVP, foundational AI, custom silicon, quantum computing at Amazon
“From Graviton to Trainium, purpose-built chips deliver better performance at lower cost because they're designed for exactly what customers need.”
Peter DeSantis, SVP, foundational AI, custom silicon, quantum computing at Amazon
“As our chip designs grow more ambitious and AI reshapes the engineering process itself, Synopsys helps us move faster across the design cycle, helping us deliver more capable, efficient computing for customers worldwide.”
Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys
“Special purpose silicon is at the heart of AWS innovation.”
Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys
“As we expand into application-optimized IP solutions, we're proud to have Amazon as our lead customer for this next phase of growth.”
Sassine Ghazi, President and CEO of Synopsys
“More broadly, by combining Amazon's leadership in AI infrastructure and custom silicon with Synopsys' leadership in silicon IP, EDA and Multiphysics solutions, we can dramatically increase the productivity of our teams and shape the future of AI-native engineering.”
Synopsys and Amazon Announce Strategic, Multi-year IP Agreement for Custom Silicon; Collaboration Also Extends to Cloud and AI-Powered Engineering PR Newswire
* Strategic engagement to accelerate the engineering of Amazon custom chips and AWS infrastructure using Synopsys' silicon IP and AI-powered engineering software solutions * Multi-year, $1B+ agreement marks the expansion of Synopsys' silicon IP business to serve increasing demand for application-optimized IP while evolving to a license-plus-royalty business model that aims to deliver value to both companies as production volumes grow * Synopsys to accelerate product development using AWS services and partner to optimize Synopsys' software on Trainium and Graviton * Synopsys engineering will also adopt Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Bedrock to accelerate its product development. SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced a strategic agreement with Amazon to accelerate Amazon's custom silicon innovation and advance the development of increasingly complex AI-powered products and cloud infrastructure. The multi-year agreement marks the expansion of Synopsys' silicon IP business to serve increasing demand for application-optimized IP with Amazon as its lead customer.
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