Nvidia plows $2B into Synopsys to make GPUs a must-have for design, simulation customers

As part of its effort to spread GPUs everywhere, Nvidia is investing $2 billion into simulation giant Synopsys.  The investment is the latest development in a years-long relationship between the two companies and will see the GPU kingmaker purchase $2 billion of Synopsys common stock at a price of $414.79 a share.  While …

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"GPUs [...] by no means limited to machine learning"

Indeed. With a good chunk of contemporary AI being essentially "a dumb person's idea of intelligence" (esp. LLMs), it's good to see Synopsys sedately focusing its GPU use, 4-to-1, to parallel acceleration of conventional workloads (linked under "touted"): PrimeSim™/SPICE, Proteus™ OPC/ILT litho, Sentaurus™ TCAD, and QuantumATK®, with 10x to 100x speedups, vs "Synopsys.ai Copilot", imho!