Synopsys and Amazon have announced a multi-year strategic agreement valued at more than $1 billion to accelerate custom silicon development and advance AI-powered engineering across Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. The agreement expands Amazon’s use of Synopsys’ silicon intellectual property to include application-optimized IP, with Amazon becoming the lead customer as Synopsys evolves its IP business toward a license-plus-royalty model. The collaboration builds on more than 15 years of partnership and will also expand Amazon’s use of Synopsys electronic design automation, simulation and analysis, and agentic AI technologies. The companies plan to optimize Synopsys software on Amazon’s Trainium and Graviton chips and accelerate multiphysics solutions for these platforms. They will also explore AI across silicon-to-system engineering workflows, including the use of AI-powered EDA, physics-based simulation, and agentic AI capabilities to help engineering teams design, analyze, optimize, and validate increasingly complex chips and systems more efficiently.
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“Amazon has invested in custom silicon for more than a decade, and it has fundamentally changed what’s possible for AWS and our customers,” said 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. 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.” Synopsys will also adopt Amazon EC2, cloud storage services, and Amazon Bedrock to accelerate development of its own IP and EDA tools. “Special purpose silicon is at the heart of AWS innovation. As we expand into application-optimized IP solutions, we’re proud to have Amazon as our lead customer for this next phase of growth,” said 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.”