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# Synopsys: Business Model & Revenue Engine

## Direct Answer

Synopsys reports revenue across 2 business segments in its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K. Design Automation is the largest, with $5.3 billion of revenue (75% of the total), followed by Design IP at $1.8 billion (25%). 44% of revenue came from the United States.

## How Does Synopsys Make Money?

Design Automation supplies 75% of revenue, so Synopsys's results move mostly with that one business; the others matter more for diversification than for the headline number. Between fiscal 2024 and 2025, Design Automation grew fastest (+25.6%) and Design IP slowest (-8.1%), so the revenue mix tilts toward Design Automation while that gap lasts.

| Segment | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Design Automation | $5.3 billion | $4.2 billion | 75.2% | 25.6% |
| Design IP | $1.8 billion | $1.9 billion | 24.8% | -8.1% |

![Bar chart of Synopsys revenue by segment for fiscal 2025: Design Automation 75.2%, Design IP 24.8%.](https://www.getswoopr.com/images/charts/synopsys-business-model-segment-mix.webp)
*Synopsys revenue by segment as a share of total revenue, from the table above. The largest is highlighted. Select the chart to open it full size.*

## Which Synopsys Segments Earn the Most?

| Segment | FY2025 segment operating income | Segment margin |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Design Automation | $2.2 billion | 41.7% |
| Design IP | $419 million | 23.9% |

Segment operating income is the profit measure Synopsys reports to its chief operating decision maker for each segment. It usually leaves out corporate costs that are not allocated to a segment, so the segments usually add up to more than consolidated operating income, and margins are comparable within Synopsys more safely than against another company.

## What Does Synopsys Sell?

Synopsys also breaks revenue down by product and service line, which shows what customers pay for rather than how management organizes the business.

| Product or service | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| License and Maintenance | $3.5 billion | $3.2 billion | 49.5% | 8.2% |
| License | $2.0 billion | $1.8 billion | 28.5% | 11.6% |
| Technology Service | $1.6 billion | $1.1 billion | 22.0% | 41.2% |

## Where Does Synopsys's Revenue Come From?

Regions follow the definitions in the filing; most companies assign revenue by customer location.

| Region | FY2025 revenue | FY2024 revenue | Share of revenue | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $3.1 billion | $2.7 billion | 43.9% | 13.2% |
| Other countries | $1.3 billion | $1.0 billion | 18.5% | 29.1% |
| South Korea | $947 million | $773 million | 13.4% | 22.5% |
| Europe | $889 million | $615 million | 12.6% | 44.6% |
| China | $814 million | $990 million | 11.5% | -17.7% |

## What the Segment Figures Do Not Show

The rows above add up to 100% of Synopsys's reported revenue for fiscal 2025; the difference is intersegment eliminations, corporate revenue or items the company reports outside its segments. Segment definitions are management's choice and change when a company reorganizes, in which case it restates prior years in the next filing, so a multi-year comparison should use the figures from a single filing. Revenue shows where sales come from, not where profit or cash is earned: a small segment can carry most of the margin.

## Where These Numbers Come From

Every figure on this page is a value Synopsys reported in the segment note and revenue disclosures of its Form 10-K filed December 22, 2025 (accession 0000883241-25-000028), read from the SEC's Financial Statement Data Sets. The prior-year column is the comparative figure from that same filing, so it reflects any restatement for a change in segments. Category names are the company's own XBRL labels, lightly reformatted for reading.

Rows that only total other rows (for example a "Products" line beside the individual products) are left out so nothing is counted twice. This page is educational and describes reported history for fiscal 2025; it is not a forecast or a recommendation.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What are Synopsys's business segments?

In its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K, Synopsys reports revenue for Design Automation and Design IP.

### Which part of Synopsys brings in the most revenue?

Design Automation, with $5.3 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, or 75% of the total.

### How much of Synopsys's revenue comes from outside the United States?

56% in fiscal 2025, by the geographic breakdown Synopsys reports in its Form 10-K. Companies assign revenue to regions differently (customer location, shipping address or selling entity), so check the filing's definition before comparing companies.

## References

- [SEC EDGAR: SYNOPSYS INC Form 10-K filed December 22, 2025](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/883241/000088324125000028/snps-20251031.htm)
- [SEC EDGAR: SYNOPSYS INC annual and quarterly filings](https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=883241&type=10-K)
- [SEC: EDGAR application programming interfaces (XBRL frames and submissions data)](https://www.sec.gov/search-filings/edgar-application-programming-interfaces)
- [SEC: Financial Statement Data Sets](https://www.sec.gov/data-research/sec-markets-data/financial-statement-data-sets)

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