NVIDIA-Synopsys Deal Reshapes Chips
NVIDIA & Synopsys $2B team-up: GPU-accelerated EDA slashes months to hours, cuts power, fuels AI/auto chips.
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The two giants of the semiconductor ecosystem, NVIDIA and Synopsys, have announced a landmark multi-year strategic partnership in which NVIDIA will invest $2 billion in Synopsys-led initiatives.
The collaboration aims to fuse NVIDIA’s GPU-accelerated computing platform with Synopsys’ industry-leading electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP portfolio, dramatically shortening chip design cycles, significantly reducing power consumption, and accelerating the development of next-generation AI, automotive, and high-performance computing chips.
At the heart of the partnership is the creation of a unified cloud-native design environment that integrates Synopsys’ TestMAX, Verdi, and VC Formal tools, NVIDIA’s cuLitho computational lithography platform, and the broader Grace-Blackwell software stack.
For the first time, designers will be able to run full-chip place-and-route, design rule checking, and electromagnetic simulation at GPU-accelerated speeds — 10 to 50 times faster than traditional CPU-based flows. Early benchmarks shared at the launch showed that a sign-off flow for a 3nm AI training chip that previously required 12 weeks of compute time was completed in under 60 hours on NVIDIA DGX Cloud instances running Synopsys tools.
