Synopsys and Amazon expand custom silicon agreement

Synopsys has signed a strategic multi-year agreement with Amazon aimed at accelerating Amazon’s custom silicon work and supporting more complex AI-powered products and cloud infrastructure. The deal expands Synopsys’ silicon IP business around application-optimized IP, with Amazon serving as the lead customer for that effort.

The agreement builds on more than 15 years of collaboration between the companies and broadens Amazon’s use of Synopsys IP to include application-optimized silicon IP. Amazon already invests in purpose-built chips including Nitro for cloud security, network and storage, Graviton for general-purpose computing, and Trainium for AI training and inference workloads.

Amazon will also expand its use of Synopsys EDA, simulation and analysis (S&A), and agentic AI technologies. The companies plan to accelerate multiphysics solutions on Trainium and Graviton as Amazon continues developing infrastructure tailored to its cloud and AI workloads.