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Sassine Ghazi

Chief Executive Officer, President & Director, Synopsys

Search every verified Sassine Ghazi interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Sassine Ghazi, CEO of Synopsys, discussed the company’s recent partnerships and business strategy in public appearances. In an October 2026 interview on Fox Business, he described Synopsys’ collaboration with Amazon and OpenAI on custom chip design, stating that systems companies require tailored silicon for applications such as search and frontier AI models. He noted that Synopsys announced a new business line to customize intellectual property for clients and collect royalties over time, citing a $1 billion commitment from Amazon for multiple chip generations. Ghazi also addressed the company’s $35 billion acquisition of Ansys, saying that physical AI requires digital twins and that investor enthusiasm at a recent meeting centered on the OpenAI and Amazon partnerships and Ansys integration. During Synopsys’ Q3 FY26 earnings call in August 2026, Ghazi reported financial results that exceeded analyst estimates, with EPS of $3.91 and revenue of $2.48 billion. He responded to investor questions about AI’s potential disruption to electronic design automation, asserting that AI models are not static and that the technology creates demand for Synopsys’ software rather than posing a threat. He also stated that non-AI chip design activity had stabilized over the previous two quarters, while AI-related design starts continued to accelerate, and reiterated a long-term growth target in the mid-teens for the IP business.

Recent appearances

  • Synopsys, OpenAI develop NEW AI model for chip design work

    October 03, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi discusses the company's artificial intelligence chip design partnerships with Amazon and OpenAI on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxbusiness #theclamancountdown #synopsys #sassineghazi #ghazi #amazon #openai #artificialintelligence #ai #technology #tech #chips #semiconductors #chipdesign #aichips #innovation #markets #business Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX Business Network…

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  • Synopsys Q3 FY26 Earnings Call | $SNPS | 🔴 WATCH LIVE

    August 26, 2026 · 📺 Benzinga

    Synopsys Inc (SNPS) — Q3 FY26 Earnings Call Live coverage with Benzinga. Q3 FY26 Results EPS: $3.91 (est. $3.47) — inline Revenue: $2.48B (est. $2.44B) — inline Reported: 2026-08-26 Recent Quarters Q2 FY26 (2026-05-27): EPS $3.35 vs est $2.98 · Rev $2.28B vs est $2.25B Q1 FY26 (2026-02-25): EPS $3.77 vs est $3.11 · Rev $2.41B vs est $2.39B Q4 FY25 (2025-12-10): EPS $2.90 vs est $2.30 · Rev $2.25B vs est $2.24B Q3 FY25 (2025-09-09): EPS $3.39 vs est $3.35 · Rev $1.74B vs est $1.77B About Synopsys Inc Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software and intellectual property p…

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  • The Democratization of Engineering | Sassine Ghazi, Synopsys | RAISE Summit 2026

    July 17, 2026 · 📺 RAISE Summit

    Sassine Ghazi, President & CEO of Synopsys, sits down with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal to discuss the democratization of engineering — how AI is transforming chip design and opening hardware creation to a far wider pool of builders. Recorded live on the Master Stage at the Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, on July 9, 2026. Livestream powered by Cursor. RAISE Summit is Europe's leading AI gathering, bringing together 9,000+ founders, executives, investors, researchers and policymakers. Learn more: https://www.raisesummit.com Subscribe for every session from RAISE Summit 2026.

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  • Synopsys Inc ($SNPS) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

    June 01, 2026 · 📺 Castify Earnings Call

    Ladies and gentlemen welcome to the synopsis earnings conference call for the second quarter fiscal year 2026 at this time all ...

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  • Synopsys Q2 2026 Earnings Call | Advanced Silicon IP Electronic System Automation Contracts Expand

    May 28, 2026 · 📺 Investing 101

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  • $SNPS Synopsys Q2 2026 Earnings Conference Call

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 EARNMOAR

    05/27/2026 Q&A: 23:21 Synopsys, Inc. provides design IP solutions in the semiconductor and electronics industries. It operates in two segments, Design Automation and Design IP. The company offers Digital and Custom IC Design solution that provides digital design implementation solutions; Verification solution that offers virtual prototyping, static and formal verification, simulation, emulation, field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based prototyping, and debug solutions; FPGA design products that are programmed to perform specific functions; synopsys technology computer-aided design (TCAD), ma…

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  • Synopsys Q2 FY26 Earnings Call | $SNPS | 🔴 WATCH LIVE

    May 27, 2026 · 📺 Benzinga

    Synopsys Inc (SNPS) — Q2 FY26 Earnings Call Live coverage with Benzinga. Q2 FY26 Results EPS: $3.35 (est. $2.98) — inline Revenue: $2.28B (est. $2.25B) — inline Reported: 2026-05-27 Recent Quarters Q1 FY26 (2026-02-25): EPS $3.77 vs est $3.11 · Rev $2.41B vs est $2.39B Q4 FY25 (2025-12-10): EPS $2.90 vs est $2.30 · Rev $2.25B vs est $2.24B Q3 FY25 (2025-09-09): EPS $3.39 vs est $3.35 · Rev $1.74B vs est $1.77B Q2 FY25 (2025-05-28): EPS $3.67 vs est $3.40 · Rev $1.60B vs est $1.60B About Synopsys Inc Synopsys is a provider of electronic design automation software and intellectual property p…

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  • Synopsys Inc ($SNPS) Q4 2025 Earnings Call

    April 30, 2026 · 📺 Castify Earnings Call

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  • [50] A New Era of Chip Design Tools // Q&A with Sassine Ghazi

    April 14, 2026 · 📺 TechTechPotato

    I caught up with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi at Synopsys Converge to discuss how the shift from monolithic chips to disaggregated, 3D-stacked architectures is fundamentally changing the software that makes silicon possible. We move past the high-level talk of Moore’s Law to look at the engineering reality: how Synopsys is using the Ansys acquisition to bring manufacturing physics (thermals, warpage, and electromagnetics) directly into the design phase to avoid the trap of "overdesigning" silicon. We also dive into Synopsys' role in helping Rapidus stand up Japan’s new leading-edge foundry and e…

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  • Synopsys CEO: We're Using AI Everywhere in Our Products

    March 11, 2026 · 📺 Bloomberg Technology

    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." -------- Like this video? Subscribe to Bloomberg Technology on YouTube:    / @bloombergtechnology     Watch the latest full episodes of "Bloomberg Technology" with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow here:    • "Bloomberg Tech" With Caroline Hyde and Ed...     Get the latest in tech from Silicon Valley and around the world here: https…

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  • How is Software Rewriting Automotive Engineering? A Conversation with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi

    January 14, 2026 · 📺 Six Five Media

    00:00:00 – CES 2026 Opening and the Shift in Focus 00:01:10 – Synopsys and the Rising Complexity of Automotive Design ...

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  • Synopsys CEO explains his company’s role in advancing the advent of autonomous vehicles

    January 10, 2026 · 📺 Fox Business

    Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi discusses the future of A.I.-driven automation and explains how it can boost innovation on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ #fox #media #breakingnews #us #usa #new #news #breaking #foxbusiness #theclamancountdown #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #automation #innovation #business #economy #future #software #semiconductors #leadership #ceo #ghazi #sassineghazi Subscribe to Fox Business: https://bit.ly/2D9Cdse Watch more Fox Business Video: https://video.foxbusiness.com Watch Fox Business Network Live: http://www.foxnewsgo.com/ FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial…

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Notable quotes

“OpenAI, like what we felt with system companies, where they are designing either assistant product or in the OpenAI case frontier model, you need a lot of chips. And every customer loves options, going from NVIDIA to build their own chips, to customize and optimize their software to specific chip. We come in with OpenAI, I'm a big believer in the frontier model, the intelligence of these models, ability to reason. In”

“One of the significant shifts in silicon is custom silicon. Recent custom silicon is important, you need to optimize how you design the silicon for the various applications. And so if you're running a Google search, or intelligent frontier model within topic or AI or Microsoft, you need chips to optimize for that stack. And that's a fantastic opportunity for Synopsys because all of the system companies, Amazon and ot”

“I'm very optimistic about and actually bullish about the demand for more and more and more advanced silicon in order to support what we can all envision in the physical AI world. The current constraints are limited by wafer capacity and that's a logic wafer capacity as well as memory. But these constraints will trigger a different approach to design these chips.”

“There is no chip today that is designed without synopsis. So we are essential and pervasive in terms of our use at the silicon level.”

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