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Synopsys Enters Definitive Agreement to Sell its Software Integrity Business to Clearlake Capital and Francisco Partners

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Monday, May 6, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. ("Clearlake") and Francisco Partners, two global private equity firms, for the sale of its Software Integrity Group business in a transaction with a total value of up to $2.1 billion, including up to $475 million in cash payable upon Francisco Partners and Clearlake achieving a specified rate of return in connection with one or more liquidity transactions. Upon completion of the transaction, the business will emerge as a newly independent application security testing software provider.

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The existing Software Integrity Group management team is expected to lead the newly independent, privately held company after the transaction closes.
Synopsys is committed to a seamless transition for the Software Integrity Group team, customers, and partners.
"Clearlake and Francisco Partners have a strong track record of success investing in growing software platforms and are ideal partners to continue growing this business as an independent, world-class software security provider," said Sassine Ghazi, president and CEO of Synopsys.
Synopsys' Software Integrity Group provides integrated software solutions that transform the way development teams build and deliver software, accelerating innovation while addressing business risk.

Synopsys and Samsung Electronics Collaborate to Achieve First Production Tapeout of Flagship Mobile CPU with Leading Performance on Samsung Foundry's GAA Process

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Thursday, May 2, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Samsung Electronics has achieved successful production tapeout for its high-performance mobile SoC design, including flagship CPUs and GPUs, with 300MHz higher performance using Synopsys.ai™ full stack AI-driven EDA suite and a broad portfolio of Synopsys IP on Samsung Foundry's latest Gate-All-Around (GAA) process technologies. This significant achievement underscores the close collaboration between Synopsys and Samsung to deliver exceptional performance, power and area (PPA) for mutual customers, enabling a new generation of chips with generative artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities on Samsung Foundry advanced process nodes.

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Synopsys.ai EDA suite augmented with high-performance CPU PPA optimizations delivers highest performance, power, and area optimization for GAA nodes.
Collaboration across Synopsys.ai full-stack AI-driven EDA suite on Samsung Foundry's advanced GAA technologies enables ultimate peak performance with lower power.
Decades-long collaboration provides mutual customers with leading AI-driven EDA suite to realize exceptional quality-of-results and productivity gains on Samsung processes.
This is a remarkable milestone to successfully achieve the highest performance, power and area on the most advanced mobile CPU cores and SoC designs in collaboration with Synopsys," said Jongpil Lee, vice president of SLSI at Samsung Electronics.

Synopsys Adds AI-Powered Application Security Assistant to Polaris Software Integrity Platform

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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of Polaris Assist, an AI-powered application security assistant on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform®. Polaris Assist combines powerful Large Language Model (LLM) technology with decades of Synopsys' application security knowledge and intelligence – including robust coding patterns, vulnerability detection rules, and Black Duck's vast open source knowledge base – to provide security and development teams with easy-to-understand summaries of detected vulnerabilities, AI-generated code fix recommendations, and other insights to help them build more secure software faster.

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Polaris Assist provides AI-augmented vulnerability summaries and code fixes to boost productivity for security and development teams.
SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced the availability of Polaris Assist , an AI-powered application security assistant on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform® .
"Polaris Assist boosts security and developer productivity, allowing them to more easily understand and remediate security vulnerabilities in their code," said Jason Schmitt, general manager of the Synopsys Software Integrity Group.
Polaris Assist is now available on the Polaris platform and will be showcased May 6 - 9 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco at the Synopsys Software Integrity Group booth, #1027.

Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys Deliver Radio Frequency Design Migration Flow to TSMC’s N6RF+ Process Node

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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The new migration workflow integrates millimeter wave (mmWave) and RF solutions from Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys into an efficient design flow that streamlines re-design of passive devices and design components to TSMC’s more advanced RF process.

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The new migration workflow integrates millimeter wave (mmWave) and RF solutions from Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys into an efficient design flow that streamlines re-design of passive devices and design components to TSMC’s more advanced RF process.
View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240424725417/en/
The new Synopsys, Keysight, and Ansys N16 to N6RF+ integrated radio frequency design migration workflow.
(Graphic: Business Wire)
This RF design migration initiative extends TSMC’s Analog Design Migration (ADM) methodology with additional capabilities for RF circuit designers.
Beyond the productivity gains offered by ADM, the Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys migration workflow demonstrates significant power reduction for a 2.4GHz low noise amplifier (LNA) design re-targeted to the N6RF+ process.

Synopsys Accelerates Next-Level Chip Innovation on TSMC Advanced Processes

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced broad EDA and IP collaborations with TSMC for advanced node designs and have been deployed across a range of AI, high-performance computing, and mobile designs. Among the newest collaborations is a co-optimized Photonic IC flow, addressing the application of silicon photonics technology in the quest for better power, performance, and transistor density. Synopsys also noted the industry's confidence in its digital and analog design flows, production-ready for TSMC N3/N3P and N2 process technologies. The two companies are collaborating on next-generation AI-driven flows, including Synopsys DSO.ai™, for design productivity and optimization. In addition, Synopsys is developing a broad portfolio of Foundation and Interface IP on TSMC N2/N2P. In a related announcement today, Keysight, Synopsys, and Ansys introduced a new integrated radio frequency (RF) design migration flow from TSMC's N16 process to its N6RF+ technology.

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Synopsys also noted the industry's confidence in its digital and analog design flows, production-ready for TSMC N3/N3P and N2 process technologies.
In addition, Synopsys is developing a broad portfolio of Foundation and Interface IP on TSMC N2/N2P.
A new flow is available for TSMC N5 to N3E migration, adding to Synopsys' established flows for TSMC N4P to N3E and N3E to N2 processes.
Synopsys IP for advanced TSMC processes has been adopted by dozens of leading companies to accelerate their development time.

Synopsys Announces Earnings Release Date For Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2024

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Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it will report results for the second quarter fiscal year 2024 on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, after the market close.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it will report results for the second quarter fiscal year 2024 on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, after the market close.
The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to review its financial results and business outlook.
A webcast replay will be available beginning May 22, 2024, at approximately 5:00 p.m. PT.
The replay will be available until Synopsys announces its third quarter fiscal year 2024 results in August 2024.

Synopsys Launches New Offering for Comprehensive Software Supply Chain Security

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition, a new software composition analysis (SCA) offering that enables organizations to mitigate upstream risk in their software supply chains. Black Duck Supply Chain Edition combines multiple open source detection technologies, automated third-party software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis, and malware detection to provide a comprehensive view of software risks inherited from open source, third-party, and AI-generated code. Development and security teams can track their dependencies across the entire application lifecycle to identify and resolve security vulnerabilities, malicious packages, and license violations and conflicts.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced the availability of Black Duck® Supply Chain Edition , a new software composition analysis (SCA) offering that enables organizations to mitigate upstream risk in their software supply chains.
Black Duck Supply Chain Edition combines multiple open source detection technologies, automated third-party software bill of materials (SBOM) analysis, and malware detection to provide a comprehensive view of software risks inherited from open source, third-party, and AI-generated code.
Supply Chain Edition builds on the market-leading capabilities of Black Duck and delivers a full range of supply chain security capabilities to teams responsible for building secure, compliant applications.
Black Duck Supply Chain Edition will be generally available on April 25 and showcased May 6-9 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco at the Synopsys Software Integrity Group booth, #1027.

Synopsys Expands Semiconductor IP Portfolio With Acquisition of Intrinsic ID

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

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(Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Intrinsic ID, a leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) IP used in the design of system-on-chips (SoCs).

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(Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Intrinsic ID, a leading provider of Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) IP used in the design of system-on-chips (SoCs).
"The acquisition of Intrinsic ID complements our extensive semiconductor IP portfolio, further helping designers create SoCs that are at the heart of today's smart and connected devices.
The broad Synopsys IP portfolio includes logic libraries, embedded memories, analog IP, wired and wireless interface IP, security IP, embedded processors and subsystems.
To accelerate IP integration and silicon bring-up, Synopsys' IP Accelerated initiative provides architecture design expertise, hardening, and signal/power integrity analysis.

Synopsys Announces New AI-Driven EDA, IP and Systems Design Solutions At SNUG Silicon Valley

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) kicked off its annual flagship Synopsys User Group (SNUG) conference in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Convention Center with a keynote presentation by Synopsys president and CEO Sassine Ghazi. Ghazi discussed the unprecedented innovation opportunities and challenges that technology R&D teams face in this era of pervasive intelligence. He also announced new EDA and IP solutions aimed at maximizing the capabilities of the global technology engineering teams, from silicon to systems, that Synopsys serves.

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(Nasdaq: SNPS ) kicked off its annual flagship Synopsys User Group (SNUG) conference in Silicon Valley at the Santa Clara Convention Center with a keynote presentation by Synopsys president and CEO Sassine Ghazi.
He also announced new EDA and IP solutions aimed at maximizing the capabilities of the global technology engineering teams, from silicon to systems, that Synopsys serves.
The company plans to discuss its growing design IP business during this afternoon's investor meeting, which is co-located with SNUG Silicon Valley.
Happening March 20 and 21 in Santa Clara, Calif., SNUG Silicon Valley gathers the global Synopsys design community to discuss technology advancements, challenges, strategic collaborations, and business opportunities.

Synopsys Strengthens Polaris Software Integrity Platform with New Dynamic Security Testing Capabilities

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the availability of Synopsys fAST Dynamic, a new dynamic application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform®. fAST Dynamic enables development, security, and DevOps teams to quickly find and fix security vulnerabilities in modern web applications without impeding development velocity. fAST Dynamic features a simplified onboarding and configuration experience, smart attack execution, and an innovative analysis engine designed for DevSecOps workflows.

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Cloud-based dynamic analysis offering optimized for modern web applications, DevSecOps workflows
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced the availability of Synopsys fAST Dynamic , a new dynamic application security testing (DAST) offering on the Synopsys Polaris Software Integrity Platform ®.
fAST Dynamic enables development, security, and DevOps teams to quickly find and fix security vulnerabilities in modern web applications without impeding development velocity.
Synopsys fAST Dynamic, which is built on the innovative scanning technology acquired from WhiteHat Security, complements the fAST Static and fAST SCA capabilities introduced on the Polaris platform in 2023.
Synopsys fAST Dynamic will be generally available on the Polaris platform in April and can be purchased as a stand-alone offering or together with fAST Static and fAST SCA.