Synopsys, Inc. (SNPS)
Chip design software, 28,000, 23% U.S.. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025, filed December 22, 2025. Ranked 26 of the 52 Technology companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
24%
End of 2028
69%
Employees, annual report
28,000
Leading staffing pattern
Software Publishers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now24%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202869%
- End of 203075%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 25%
- Becomes checking a model's work 58%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
The filing states the total and the U.S. share and nothing by function, so one software pattern by description (c), said so.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 24% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 69% at the end of 2028, 75% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 75% desk work, 23% people work and 2% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 25% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 58% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
28,000 employees as of October 31, 2025 (stated). About 23% in the United States, as the filing states.
The filing: “As of fiscal 2025 year-end, Synopsys had approximately 28,000 employees, with about 23% in the United States and 77% in other locations worldwide.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Software Publishers | 100% | Electronic design automation software, design IP and, since the Ansys merger, simulation software; the filing counts employees by country, not by function, so the whole workforce is in the software publishers pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 28,000 employees in more than 30 countries, 23% in the United States; headcount grew about 40% in fiscal 2025 through the Ansys merger; voluntary turnover 5.7%; 95% survey participation with an engagement score of 81.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Software Publishers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Microsoft (MSFT, 223,000 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- Oracle (ORCL, 141,000 employees)24% now, 68% by 2028
- Salesforce, Inc. (CRM, 83,334 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER, 34,000 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- DoorDash, Inc. (DASH, 31,400 employees)29% now, 67% by 2028
- Adobe Inc. (ADBE, 31,360 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
- ServiceNow, Inc. (NOW, 29,187 employees)24% now, 69% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
38 sentences in the filing name AI. Thirty-eight sentences: AI-driven chip design across its design suite, customers' AI-powered products, AI among the technological trends in its outlook, and an AI-powered performance management platform for its own employees.
- “(the Ansys Merger), and its expected impact; business and market outlook, opportunities, strategies, technological trends, such as artificial intelligence, and initiatives and opportunities, including among other things, our reallocation of resources in our Design IP segment to higher growth opportunities; the potential impact of the uncertain macroeconomic and global economic conditions on our...”
- “(Synopsys, we, our or us) is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products.”
- “We are a global leader in supplying the mission-critical EDA solutions that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits (ICs), also known as chips or silicon, and we are pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) driven chip design across the full-stack EDA suite to improve efficiency and accelerate the design, verification testing and manufacturing of advanced digital and analog chips.”
- “The proliferation of silicon to power our digital world, where technology is omnipresent and interconnected, means computing is being reinvented with the rise of AI and software-defined systems.”
- “The rise of silicon-powered intelligent devices and AI has increased demand for chips and systems with greater functionality and performance, reduced size and lower power consumption.”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20216median 0
- Fiscal 20226median 0
- Fiscal 202313median 1
- Fiscal 202432median 4
- Fiscal 202538median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-31 | 28,000 | 2025-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2024-10-31 | 20,000 | 2024-12-19 | 10-K |
| 2023-10-31 | 20,300 | 2023-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2022-10-31 | 19,000 | 2022-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2021-10-31 | 16,361 | 2021-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2020-10-31 | 15,036 | 2020-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2019-10-31 | 13,896 | 2019-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-10-31 | 13,245 | 2018-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2017-10-31 | 11,686 | 2017-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-10-31 | 10,669 | 2016-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2015-10-31 | 10,284 | 2015-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2014-10-31 | 9,436 | 2014-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2013-10-31 | 8,573 | 2013-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-10-31 | 8,138 | 2012-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2011-10-31 | 6,803 | 2011-12-16 | 10-K |
| 2010-10-31 | 6,707 | 2010-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2009-10-31 | 5,928 | 2009-12-18 | 10-K |
| 2008-10-31 | 5,691 | 2008-12-22 | 10-K |
| 2007-10-31 | 5,196 | 2007-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-10-31 | 5,130 | 2007-01-11 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-31 | 4,756 | 2006-01-12 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-31 | 4,378 | 2005-01-12 | 10-K |
| 2003-10-31 | 4,362 | 2004-01-29 | 10-K |
| 2002-10-31 | 4,254 | 2003-01-29 | 10-K |
| 2001-10-31 | 3,223 | 2002-01-25 | 10-K |
| 2000-10-31 | 2,922 | 2001-01-26 | 10-K |
| 1999-09-30 | 3,156 | 1999-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 2,592 | 1998-12-23 | 10-K |
| 1997-09-30 | 1,961 | 1997-12-03 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-09-30 | 1,716 | 1996-12-20 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by function: one pattern by description (c), applied to the 77% abroad under rule 7.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000883241-25-000028, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Synopsys, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 24% now and 69% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Synopsys, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Synopsys, Inc. employ?
- 28,000 as of October 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending October 31, 2025 states. About 23% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Synopsys, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Software Publishers; by those patterns the work is about 75% desk work, 23% people work and 2% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Synopsys, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 38 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 6, 6, 13, 32 and 38 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 3, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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