The 2025 deals reshaping the semiconductor industry
By Nick Flaherty, eeNews Europe | December 30, 2025

The semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) sectors saw significant consolidation in 2025, driven primarily by the transition to the next generation of power-hungry chips for AI data centres.
Synopsys completed its $35bn deal to acquire Ansys for physical modelling, particularly of chiplets, while Marvell acquired Celestial AI for its chip-to-chip optical interconnect. And in the dying days of the year, Nvidia announced it was to acquire the technology of AI firm Groq, bringing native language processing to its graphics processing units (GPUs).
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