{"id":448510,"date":"2026-05-27T23:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448510\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T23:16:12","slug":"synopsys-raises-annual-forecast-on-demand-for-ai-chip-design-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/448510\/","title":{"rendered":"Synopsys raises annual forecast on demand for AI chip design software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">By Stephen Nellis and Harshita Mary Varghese<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Synopsys raised its annual results forecast on Wednesday, signaling steady demand for \u200cits chip design software from companies racing to develop AI chips \u200cand infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Demand tied to AI has been strong as chipmakers and hyperscalers invest in more complex semiconductor \u200bdesigns and intelligent systems. Synopsys expects fiscal 2026 revenue between $9.63 billion and $9.71 billion, up from its previous forecast of $9.56 billion to $9.66 billion, with a midpoint above analyst estimates of $9.63 billion, according to LSEG data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">It expects annual adjusted profit to be between $14.72 \u200cand $14.80 per share, above analyst \u2060estimates of $14.45 per share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Synopsys also reached an agreement with Elliott Investment Management that will give one board seat to the activist \u2060investor&#8217;s managing partner, Jesse Cohn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi told Reuters he has had &#8220;constructive&#8221; discussions with Cohn on how to generate more revenue from the company&#8217;s software and intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Ghazi \u200bsaid \u200bthe company is working on new agreements \u200bwith large customers in which they \u200cwill pay more for <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:AI tools;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;AI tools&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI tools<\/a>, including &#8220;agent engineers&#8221; that help boost productivity. He said the agreements will involve customers paying royalties for each chip made with Synopsys technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">&#8220;AI changing both the balance between a human engineer and agent engineer is an inflection point to have a different conversation with our customers, so that&#8217;s \u200con the software side,&#8221; Ghazi said. &#8220;On the IP \u200bside, there is clearly a trend in data \u200bcenters for the hyperscalers to \u200bbuild their own chips. You cannot build your own chips without \u200cthe participation of Synopsys IP.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The company \u200bforecast third-quarter revenue between $2.41 \u200bbillion and $2.46 billion, compared with analysts&#8217; average estimate of $2.41 billion, according to data compiled by LSEG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Total revenue came in at $2.28 billion for the second \u200bquarter, compared with estimates \u200cof $2.25 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Synopsys shares declined about 1.5% in after-market trading after the results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting \u200bby Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru and Stephen Nellis in San \u200bFrancisco; Editing by Shreya Biswas, Rod Nickel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Stephen Nellis and Harshita Mary Varghese SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 (Reuters) &#8211; Synopsys raised its annual results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,137362,363,364,228510,169462,228511,111,139,69,228513,93762,228514,228512,145],"class_list":["post-448510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-analyst-estimates","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-chip-design-software","tag-elliott-investment-management","tag-jesse-cohn","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-software-side","tag-synopsys","tag-synopsys-ceo-sassine-ghazi","tag-synopsys-ip","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}