Synopsys, Amazon Web Services sign chip design licensing deal worth more than $1 billion
SNPS•SNPS•SNPS•SNPS•Synopsys and Amazon Web Services signed a multi-year deal worth more than $1 billion for AWS to license chip design intellectual property from Synopsys.
Amazon.com's cloud computing unit, Amazon Web Services, will license chip design intellectual property from Synopsys under a multi-year deal worth more than $1 billion. The companies did not specify which AWS chips will use Synopsys blueprints.
AWS designs its Graviton central processors and Trainium AI chips. Synopsys said the licensed blueprints will be optimized for specific types of chips. As part of the deal, Synopsys will also use AWS computing and storage services and Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI applications.
Synopsys’ chip design licensing business generated $1.75 billion in revenue in its most recent fiscal year. The company has expanded from licensing common chip components to more complex designs, including computing cores.
