Why Synopsys Bought Ansys (For $35 Billion)

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[semajnollissor]

Wow, sold the company for the price of only 70 multiphysics licenses.

[AlecMuller]

I'm a mechanical engineer (independent contractor, so I have to pay out of pocket to rent software). I rented a stand-alone seat of ANSYS (structural + thermal + SolidWorks Plug-in) for a year and a half for a project, and it cost more than 2X as much as my car. It's powerful, but *man*, it's expensive.

[conor]

I put a bid in too, but I guess they didn’t want my 2000 dollars 😤

[qijq]

Ansys also owns Redhawk which is the industry-leading IR/EM analysis tool. This was a hole in their backend design flow that I'm sure Synopsys wanted to fill. Cadence has Voltus for this type of verification and now Synopsys has responded.

[erik]

As a Mech. Engineer who has mostly interacted with Ansys as a general Mechanical FEM software (Stresses, Eigenfrequencies) its a nice suprise to see software from the CAE-Sector show up on your channel. A big Advantage of ANsys as a simulation software I have seen a lot of people proclaim over other CFD/FEM/Thermal programs is that it has a lot of different modules, and is steadily connecting them (e.g.: Heat Transfer + the thermal impact on material properties under heat). Have you considered covering general CAD (i.e. Modelling) Software? Might not be highly relevant to your main topic of semiconductors, but I think it would be nice to see a coverage of the 2D->2.5D->3D evolution of Software, and the modern trends (integrated FEM (aka what you tend to call CAE in this video), CAD-CAM...).

[ats]

Wow, $35 billion for ANSYS? The per seat cost was already astronomical and I guess it will get even higher now...

[davidgunther]

Amazing growth for Ansys: from $35 million to $35 billion in 30 years.
Heat transfer is being taken very seriously.

[towlie]

Correct pronunciation of Euler is to read it as “Oiler”
Based on the word Eule or owl in German. Thanks for the video!

[timv]

You had me at "In the 1960s, John Swanson was working at the Westinghouse Astronuclear Lab in Pittsburgh.He went there to work on nuclear-fueled rockets with the goal of going to Mars - the NERVA " What an incredible series of words, I'd love to see what would do with that as the first line of a short story.

[dmitriikruglov]

As somebody who works in a semiconductor company and uses Ansys tools daily, I have to say this video summarizes things 100% accurately.

[rodU]

"Fluids are not like solids"❤🤯

[woolfel]

another great video. If only tech review youtubers would realize how tough it is to design and build chips, maybe they would shut up about performance benchmarks. fact that AMD and Apple can keep increasing performance every year is an amazing achievement that people take fore granted

[lldae]

We definitely need more videos of this caliber and expertise on YouTube! They are truly valuable and deserving of recognition. 👍❤️

[b.]

Another note on anti-monopoly issues: given how crucial thermal simulation is for advanced packaging, Synopsis could shut off this capability for competitors such as Cadence

I don't know if there are competitors to Ansys that could fill this role as a complementary solution to other EDA vendors

[gabrielabrantes]

I was just running a CFD simulation on ansys and you uploaded this video, so nice to see an youtuber that I follow talking about something that I use everyday.

[peterheynmoller]

I find it very inspiring to watch any of your semiconductor videos as I am currently studying electrical engineering and we have a course that is related to circuit design (mostly analog) on a silicon level. It's really great to have a peak into cutting edge from time to time! It's amazing, your videos are both entertaining and motivate me to study... Insane combo!

[lord_of_love_and_thunder]

I am sorry but your description of FEA is quite far off the mark. Discretization (breaking up a domain into smaller units) has nothing to do with prediction being easier on the smaller units. In fact predictions even in extremely small units near corners for example, can be much harder than larger units in the middle of a domain. Discretization in FEA is necessitated by the nature of function approximation, namely piecewise polynomials. These piecewise polynomials are non-zero only over a small region, hence small geometrical units are a natural corollary. Where prediction is easy or difficult depends on the underlying physics, the geometry of the domain and the suitability of the functions we have choosen to approximate the solution.

[googleyoutubechannel]

This critical misconception has permeated everything in physics and engineering and is so damaging: "the complex non-linear equations that _govern_ fluid dynamics". no. just no. the flavor of algebra, and equations we express in that specific algebra, that we've invented, are just imprecise _models_ of fluid dynamics.
This isn't a subtle difference in language, it's a fundamental and enormously damaging misconception that holds back human progress.

[_sahildahat_]

I'm a Chemical engineer who has worked with ANSYS fluent & built some structural components which we later tested out. It is an awesome software which works great & I am really amazed to see the fluid simulations. We had Computational Fluid Dynamics as a subject which deals with various parts as also explained in the video.

[andrewcornelio]

6:00 "References and sources go here"