Synopsys Stock News

Since President Donald Trump announced sweeping tariffs on April 2, the uncertainty has unleashed a bloodbath on Wall Street: The S&P 500 SPX+0.13% is off 6.9% since that day, while the Roundhill Magnificent Seven exchange-traded fund MAGS-0.70% is down 10% over the same period.

The day-to-day volatility for the S&P 500 settled down on Monday and Tuesday. But two-thirds of stocks in the U.S. large-cap benchmark index have declined this year, with 220 of the 500 stocks down at least 10% and 82 down at least 20%.

Investors have had quite a wake-up call to daily volatility in the stock market. As we saw on Monday, the broad indexes can shift to large gains and then back into deep red territory as rumors circulate.

Chip makers who specialize in semiconductors—after being caught up in optimism about artificial intelligence for the past two years, have had a rough couple of months.

Synopsys , which makes software used to design semiconductors, on Wednesday introduced a technology it said will pave the way toward computers taking over many of the tasks in creating new computer chips.

Announcing Up to 30x Projected Performance Gains on the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell Platform to Speed Circuit Simulations for Next-Generation Semiconductors News Highlights: Today's GTC keynote featured Synopsys as part of the ecosystem with full-stack EDA suite acceleration across design, verification, and manufacturing on NVIDIA GPU and NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries. Leveraging the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Bl...

Two-Day Conference will Examine Future of AI and Intelligent Systems;  Join Keynotes from Synopsys CEO and OpenAI Head of Hardware Via Livestream SUNNYVALE, Calif. , March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) will host its annual flagship user group conference, SNUG Silicon Valley, March 19-20, 2025, at the Santa Clara Convention Center.

Electronic Design Automation software is critical to semiconductor development, and the sector is highly concentrated and dominated by two companies. Synopsys and Cadence, beyond EDA software, provide Intellectual Property and collect licensing and royalty fees. Both companies have extraordinarily wide moats supported by high switching costs, proprietary intellectual property, and a strong netw...