Amazon Web Services is paying Synopsys more than $1 billion for chip design blueprints
Amazon Web Services has entered a multi-year deal with Synopsys worth over $1 billion to license chip design intellectual property. Synopsys provides software for designing complex computer chips and licenses blueprints for parts of a chip, a business that generated $1.75 billion in revenue in its most recent fiscal year, according to CNA - Business.
The deal makes Amazon the lead customer for Synopsys' expanded silicon IP business, which is shifting to a license-plus-royalty model, as reported by Quartz. Synopsys' design licensing business focuses on common parts of chips and has moved into more complex designs such as computing cores. The blueprints will be optimized for specific types of chips designed by AWS, including its Graviton central processors and Trainium AI chips.
As part of the agreement, Synopsys will also adopt AWS computing and storage services, as well as Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI applications. The companies did not specify which AWS chips will use Synopsys blueprints.
Brief written by urgent.news from Quartz, CNA - Business, Channel News Asia — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
