Activist investor Elliott Investment Management has made a multibillion-dollar investment in Synopsys Inc. and plans to push for changes at the chip-design software maker, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Activist investor Elliott Investment Management has made a multibillion-dollar investment in Synopsys Inc. and plans to push for changes at the chip-design software maker, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.

Sassine Ghazi, CEO of Synopsys, discusses the company’s acquisition and integration of Ansys, how AI can help accelerate the chip manufacturing process, and AI’s role in the recent software selloff. He speaks with Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Corp. invested $2 billion in Synopsys Inc. as part of a broader engineering and design tie-up, aiming to infuse its AI-computing technology into more industries. The new partnership involves integrating Nvidia’s tools into Synopsys’ chip-design applications, and the companies will deploy AI agents and work on joint marketing. While elsewhere, DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model aimed at rivaling Google and OpenAI. 'Bloomberg Tech' Co-host Ed Ludlow joined Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec on 'Bloomberg Businessweek Daily' to break it all down. (Source: Bloomberg)

Nvidia Corp. invested $2 billion in chip-design software maker Synopsys Inc. as part of a broader engineering and design tie-up, aiming to infuse its AI-computing technology into more industries.