Synopsys Inc (SNPS) — Technical state

Long reads

• Industrial & Physical AI: Global Dependencies 2026–2030Dossier · $29 · 6 Mar 2026The Landmark Deal: Silicon Meets System Simulation The landmark event is the completion of Synopsys' $35B acquisition of Ansys (July 2025), which merges silicon-level EDA with system-level multiphysics simulation — signaling that the…
• Agentic Infrastructure Software: The Orchestration LayerDossier · $39 · 24 Feb 2026The "Physical AI Simulation" trade requires domain data owners (Siemens) and physics engines (Synopsys).
• This company's software designs every AI chip that ships — it sat out the entire AI advance for a year, then flipped an overnight shrug into the week's cleanest double-digit paymentChart Pick · 28 Aug 2026In-universe on this one: Synopsys is a Rubin 100 constituent, so the Directional Flow reading comes straight from the nightly engine rather than a hand calculation.
• Portfolio Construction — Build a Barbell · Closelooknet Heresy IIIHeresy · 16 May 2026Live cohort as of May 2026: COHR · CRWV · GLW · INTC · IREN · LITE · MRVL · NBIS · NOK · SNPS.
• Pattern 03 — NVIDIA Strategic Authority InvestmentReport · 12 May 2026The 16-Event Timeline (2023-07-12 → 2026-05-12) 2024 2025 2026 RXRX 23-07 ARM 23-09 APLD 24-09 NBIS 24-12 MRVL 25-03 CRWV 25-03 INTC 25-09 NOK 25-10 SNPS 25-12 LITE COHR 26-03 IREN 26-05 GLW 26-05 exit RXRX exit APLD exit ARM Tier 1 …
• Nvidia’s Equity Stakes — Follow the Wise Men, Pattern 03 PreviewWeekly Signal · 10 May 2026Synopsys at $502.51 is up 21% from NVIDIA's $414.79 entry, with the EDA sector running flat versus the rest of the structure.

Dailies

• Jobs day — futures +0.3% before payrolls; Nike −8.7% after hours, Accenture holds +15.8%Morning 10 · 2 Oct 2026The comeback names held their gains — Accenture +15.8%, Synopsys +12.8%, Fair Isaac +11.7%.
• AI comeback — Accenture +18%, Synopsys +8%, optics +9% while all three US indices slipMidday 10 · 1 Oct 2026Chip-design software: Synopsys $471.56 (+8.42%) after its investor day, Cadence $340.49 (+3.12%)
• The bar moves overnight: three beat-and-raise prints get sold after hours.Morning 10 · 28 Aug 2026IGV closed +7.74%, the biggest software day of the year by this page's own tracking, with CRM +22.58% and CRWD +20.50% both paid again at scale on top of their after-hours gains, and Synopsys — which had only shrugged −1.0% Wednesday…
• Daylight pays the five-print evening at scale — Salesforce +20%, Okta +27%, CrowdStrike +18%, Nvidia +7.6% — while ten of eleven sectors trade red and technology alone carries the index.Midday 10 · 27 Aug 2026Synopsys flips its overnight shrug into an 11.7% payment, jobless claims print tight at 203K against a 208K consensus, both bond lines sit unmoved through the risk-on tape, IBIT reclaims 44.5 a day after handing it back by four cents, and…
• Pattern 03 cohort — NVIDIA equity deployments as Rubin Build-Out leading indicatorDaily Pulse · 26 May 2026Current cohort: 10 names — COHR, CRWV, GLW, INTC, IREN, LITE, MRVL, NBIS, NOK, SNPS.