Synopsys and Amazon announced a multi-year agreement worth more than $1 billion, with Amazon as lead customer for Synopsys’s new application-optimized silicon IP business. The contract value is not a jobs figure.
Synopsys and OpenAI announced GPT-Synopsys, a model meant to run chip-design software, interpret its output and iterate on designs. Synopsys says the model’s work will still be checked by conventional sign-off tools.