The State Administration for Market Regulation's (SAMR) conditional approval, which came on Monday, would finally allow two major players in the electronic design automation (EDA) industry to combine.

July 17, 2025, following approval from all required regulatory authorities. Earlier, on June 30, 2025, Ansys and Synopsys announced that the merger had received regulatory approval in all jurisdictions except China.

In January of 2024, Synopsys entered into an agreement to acquire Ansys to further its integrated silicon-to-systems approach and expand its R&D teams. This comes as a trend to integrate AI, silicon and software defined systems, requiring more compute performance and will likely grow exponentially in the future.