Synopsys 高管在首尔记者会重申领跑韩国半导体设计市场（Ansys 并购后平台、agentic AI EDA、HBM/3D IC/CPO 支持），未披露任何投资金额、订单或指引

Synopsys is expanding its semiconductor design platform following its acquisition of Ansys, targeting further growth in South Korea’s semiconductor market.
Shankar Krishnamoorthy, chief product development officer (CPDO) at Synopsys, told a press conference at the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in Gangnam on Sept. 8 that the company will “accelerate technological innovation in South Korea through agentic artificial intelligence (AI), multiphysics-based design and a silicon-to-systems integrated engineering approach.”
The importance of the South Korean market is growing. According to Synopsys’ own research, semiconductors are expected to account for 42.3% of the country’s total exports this year, while high-bandwidth memory (HBM) exports are projected to increase 153%.
Most of Synopsys’ revenue in South Korea comes from the memory sector, with Samsung Electronics and SK hynix among its major customers. The two companies use Synopsys’ semiconductor design tools and other technologies to develop memory chips.
Synopsys is also expanding its revenue base into system semiconductors. “Beyond memory, we work with Samsung Electronics’ foundry and System LSI businesses,” Krishnamoorthy said. “We also collaborate with Rebellions and FuriosaAI across all areas, including electronic design automation (EDA) tools.”
Synopsys’ strength lies in the breadth of its design environment. The company acquired engineering simulation software company Ansys in July last year, expanding beyond its existing EDA and intellectual property (IP) portfolio to add system design and simulation capabilities. This allows chips to be designed with consideration for the systems in which they will operate, including rockets, aircraft and data centers.
The company is also addressing the growing complexity of AI chip design. As AI chips incorporate more dies and HBM, interconnect density increases, requiring designers to consider signal integrity, power, thermal effects and stress simultaneously. Synopsys combines EDA and multiphysics technologies to support advanced designs including three-dimensional integrated circuits (3D ICs) and co-packaged optics (CPO).
Synopsys is also applying agentic AI to EDA. The technology assists engineers and autonomously performs lengthy tasks. In an agentic AI design verification process with Nvidia, the time required to obtain register-transfer level (RTL) results was reduced by a factor of 50, while verification coverage increased 20%. Productivity in analog and mixed-signal design improved by as much as threefold.
Synopsys also supports its own application programming interface (API). The company said it requires fewer tokens and lower token costs than competing solutions while significantly reducing latency.