It’s done: Ansys is part of Synopsys

We knew it was coming, but it’s still a bit of a shock: Synopsys announced today that has completed its $35 billion acquisition of Ansys.

Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi said, “Today marks a transformational milestone for Synopsys. For decades, Synopsys has been delivering breakthroughs in silicon design and IP that have fueled chip innovation. The increasing complexity of developing intelligent systems demands design solutions with a deeper integration of electronics and physics, enhanced by AI. With Ansys’ leading system simulation and analysis solutions now part of Synopsys, we can maximize the capabilities of engineering teams broadly, igniting their innovation from silicon to systems.”

In a video on Synopsys’ website, Mr. Ghazi added, ”Products are increasingly evolving into intelligent systems, capable of reasoning, learning, collaborating, adapting and acting. These intelligent systems are silicon-powered, software-defined and AI-infused products,” which means that manufacturers need to “re-engineer how products are engineered.”

Synopsys said that it expects to deliver the first set of Synopsys+Ansys integrated capabilities in the first half of 2026. These will “fuse multiphysics across the full EDA stack, including for multi-die advanced packaging”. The statement adds that the “combined roadmap also includes integrated solutions to advance testing and virtualization of complex, intelligent systems for automotive and other industries.”

And another one bites the dust … I’m sad that the era of big-independent-CAE is over but happy that the will they/won’t they saga of this deal has finally concluded.