About Synopsys
Synopsys sells electronic design automation software for chip design and verification, along with reusable silicon IP such as interface and memory blocks. Chip designers and foundries use its tools and IP to build processors, accelerators and system-on-chip products. In July 2025 it completed its roughly 35 billion dollar acquisition of Ansys, adding simulation and multiphysics software. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Synopsys was founded in 1986 and is based in Sunnyvale, CA, United States. It is listed under ASICs, AI Accelerators. Its shares trade as SNPS on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
- AI Accelerators
What Synopsys works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
AI Accelerators
An AI accelerator is a chip, or a part of a chip, designed to run machine learning faster or with less energy than a general-purpose processor. The category includes GPUs, TPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) and chips from many startups.
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