Synopsys and OpenAI team up on GPT-Synopsys chip-design model

Synopsys said Sept. 30 it has struck a revenue-sharing deal with OpenAI to build GPT-Synopsys, an AI model trained to help engineers design chips — from circuit descriptions in hardware languages through laying out billions of transistors on silicon. OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman said the model will learn Synopsys software workflows so teams can “shave off weeks, months from the design process. Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi told Reuters that OpenAI will pay a training subscription fee, and that when customers use the product the firms will share revenue based on how much the model improves a design. He said the pact is structured as upside, not cannibalization, and that Synopsyss traditional tools will still verify results — “guardrails” to check the physics before sign-off. Synopsys also told an investor summit it now expects 15 per cent revenue growth for fiscal 2027, above LSEG consensus of about 11.2 per cent; shares jumped as much as 7 per cent after the partnership and forecast news. The collaboration deepens OpenAI’s push into specialized industrial software just as chipmakers race to compress design cycles for AI accelerators. For Canadian semiconductor design houses and university labs that already standardize on Synopsys flows, GPT-Synopsys will be judged on whether AI suggestions survive sign-off — and on how revenue share shows up in seat pricing. Sources: Reuters; The Indian Express.