How Synopsys' acquisition of Ansys could streamline design and simulation

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A definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire Ansys for $35 billion could improve digital twins workflows across different engineering disciplines in chip design, physics, software, and security. Both firms are building the tools required for new chips and sustainability technologies.

diginomica.com/, Jan. 17, 2024 – 

Synopsys and Ansys have announced a definitive agreement for Synopsys to acquire Ansys for $35 billion. If this goes through, it will be the largest enterprise software acquisition since Broadcom completed the acquisition of VMware last November for $69 billion.

This acquisition has the potential to expand the scope and scale of digital twins for streamlining engineering design workflows across more disciplines. They both approached digital twins from slightly different but increasingly complementary angles. Synopsys focused on simulating chip designs, and lately software testing and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) management tech needed for software security.

Ansys has its core in physic simulations of mechanical, electrical, and heat properties, which are increasingly important in designing smaller chip features where these effects come into play. This combination will allow them to build a more consolidated stack to improve the design of not only chips but also all of the sustainability infrastructure like electric cars, solar panels, and heat pumps.

In early 2020, they were both worth about $20 billion, but now, Synopsys has a market cap of approximately $77.5 billion and Ansys $28.5 billion but is now being valued at $35 billion. If the deal goes through, it will represent a 29% premium over Ansys's current price.

Synopsys was previously neck and neck with its largest competitor, Cadence Design Systems, whose market cap grew from $20 billion in early 2020 to about $75.5 billion today. Ansys also competes with Dassault Systemes with a market cap of €61.16 billion ($66.46 billion). Synopsys and Ansys currently have a combined market cap of $106 billion, although it will be up to the whims of the market to settle on the new value if and when the deal goes through.

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