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Price · 1Y
$373.47
Thesis
Synopsys sits at the top of the EDA duopoly. Every leading-edge AI accelerator, CPU, and networking ASIC is designed using its tools, and the company captures recurring revenue regardless of which silicon vendor wins. The Ansys deal adds multiphysics simulation, expanding the design envelope from chip to system.
Pricing power is structural: customers cannot tape out without these tools, and switching costs across decades of design flows are prohibitive.
Catalysts
- Accelerating AI chip design starts and custom silicon programs
- Ansys integration and cross-sell into chip-and-system flows
- AI-assisted design (DSO.ai) adoption and pricing uplift
- Continued IP attach on each new node
Recent events
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