旧金山，9月30日：新思科技（Synopsys）与亚马逊云科技（AWS）周三表示，亚马逊旗下的云计算部门已达成一项价值超过10亿美元的多年度协议，向新思科技授权芯片设计知识产权。
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 30 : Synopsys and Amazon Web Services on Wednesday said that Amazon.com's cloud computing unit has entered a multi-year deal worth more than $1 billion to license chip design intellectual property from Synopsys.
新思科技提供用于设计复杂计算机芯片的软件，帮助英伟达和英特尔等公司决定如何在几平方毫米的硅片上布局数千亿个晶体管。但该公司也越来越多地授权芯片部件的蓝图，这项业务在其最近一个财年带来了17.5亿美元的营收，并使其与安谋控股（Arm Holdings）展开竞争。
Synopsys makes software for designing complex computer chips, helping firms such as Nvidia and Intel decide how to lay out tens of billions of transistors on a few square millimeters of silicon. But it also increasingly licenses blueprints for parts of a chip, a business that brought in $1.75 billion in revenue in its most recent fiscal year and where it competes against Arm Holdings.
在早期阶段，新思科技的设计授权业务主要聚焦于芯片的通用部件，客户认为从新思科技授权蓝图比从头设计这些部件更具成本效益。但新思科技已进军计算核心等更复杂的设计领域，并表示周三达成的协议将专注于针对特定类型芯片优化的蓝图。
In its early stages, the Synopsys design licensing business focused on common parts of chips where customers found it more cost-effective to license blueprints from Synopsys than to design those parts from scratch. But Synopsys has moved into more complex designs such as computing cores and said the deal on Wednesday will focus on blueprints optimized for specific types of chips.
AWS设计了多种自研芯片，包括其Graviton中央处理器和Trainium AI芯片。双方未具体说明哪些AWS芯片将使用新思科技的蓝图。
AWS designs a variety of its own chips, including its Graviton central processors and its Trainium AI chips. The two parties did not specify which AWS chips will use Synopsys blueprints.
作为协议的一部分，新思科技还将采用AWS的计算和存储服务，以及Amazon Bedrock来构建和部署AI应用。
As part of the deal, Synopsys will also adopt AWS computing and storage services, as well as Amazon Bedrock to build and deploy AI applications.