NVIDIA Invests $2 Billion in Synopsys as Companies Announce Strategic Engineering Partnership

NVIDIA and electronic design automation company Synopsys have entered a multiyear strategic partnership that combines GPU-accelerated computing, agentic AI and digital twin technologies to expand engineering and design capabilities across industries. 

As part of the announcement, NVIDIA confirmed a $2 billion investment in Synopsys through the purchase of common stock at $414.79 per share.

The collaboration brings together NVIDIA’s CUDA-based accelerated computing stack and Synopsys’ engineering and electronic design automation (EDA) tools to speed up design, simulation and verification processes for R&D teams. 

Both companies said the partnership addresses rising workflow complexity, higher development costs, and pressure to shorten time-to-market across sectors, including semiconductors, aerospace, automotive, and industrial engineering.

“CUDA GPU-accelerated computing is revolutionising design — enabling simulation at unprecedented speed and scale, from atoms to transistors, from chips to complete systems, creating fully functional digital twins inside the computer,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Our partnership with Synopsys harnesses the power of NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI to reimagine engineering and design.”

Synopsys president and CEO Sassine Ghazi said the collaboration reflects the growing need for integrated, AI-driven engineering workflows. 

“The complexity and cost of developing next-generation intelligent systems demands engineering solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, accelerated by AI capabilities and compute,” he said. “No two companies are better positioned to deliver AI-powered, holistic system design solutions than Synopsys and NVIDIA.”

The partnership covers broad acceleration of Synopsys’ compute-heavy applications, the integration of agentic AI into design workflows, development of next-generation digital twins using NVIDIA Omniverse and Cosmos, and expanded cloud access to GPU-accelerated engineering tools. 

The companies will also launch joint go-to-market initiatives using Synopsys’ global sales and channel network. Both firms noted that the agreement is not exclusive and they will continue working with the wider semiconductor and EDA ecosystem.