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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-25-132198
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	SD
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DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250530

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SYNOPSYS INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000883241
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE [7372]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	06 Technology
		EIN:				561546236
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1031

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		SD
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-19807
		FILM NUMBER:		251011430

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		675 ALMANOR AVE
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94085
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6505845000

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		675 ALMANOR AVE
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94085
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</DIV><DIV STYLE="line-height:3.0pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:2pt;border-bottom:1px solid #000000">&nbsp;</DIV> <P STYLE="margin-top:4pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>UNITED STATES </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>FORM&nbsp;SD </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:18pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SPECIALIZED DISCLOSURE REPORT </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:24pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>SYNOPSYS,&nbsp;INC. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter) </B></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">000-19807</FONT></B></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"><B><FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">56-1546236</FONT></B></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(State or other jurisdiction</B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:1pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Identification No.)</B></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>675 Almanor Ave </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Sunnyvale, California 94085 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Address of principal executive offices) </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>John F. Runkel, Jr. </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>General Counsel and Corporate Secretary </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Synopsys, Inc. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>675
Almanor Ave </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Sunnyvale, California 94085 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(650) <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">584-5000</FONT> </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>(Name and telephone number, including area code, </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:8pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>of the person to contact in connection with this report.) </B></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; text-indent:4%; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this Form is being submitted, and provide the period to which the information
in this Form applies: </P> <P STYLE="font-size:12pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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STYLE="white-space:nowrap">240.13p-1)</FONT> for the reporting period from January&nbsp;1 to December&nbsp;31, 2024. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Conflict Minerals Disclosure </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Synopsys, Inc.
(Synopsys) has filed a Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD. The report is also publicly available on Synopsys&#146; website at <I>https://www.synopsys.com/company/corporate-social-responsibility/supply-chain.html</I>. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">The Conflict Minerals Report required by Item 1.01 is filed as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the duly
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<P STYLE="margin-top:24pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Synopsys, Inc. </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>Conflict
Minerals Report </B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman" ALIGN="center"><B>For The Year Ended December&nbsp;31, 2024 </B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Synopsys, Inc. (referred to as Synopsys, we, us, and our in this report) has submitted this Conflict Minerals Report for the year ended December&nbsp;31, 2024
in order to comply with Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1).</FONT> Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> was adopted by
the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to implement conflict minerals disclosure requirements, as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> imposes
reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Conflict minerals are currently defined as gold, cassiterite, columbite-tantalite
(coltan), wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, and tungsten (which, together with gold, are referred to as the 3TG metals). The definition includes these minerals regardless of their geographic origin or whether or
not they fund armed conflict. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In accordance with Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1,</FONT> we conducted due diligence on the source and chain
of custody of the conflict minerals that were necessary to the functionality or production of the products we manufactured, or contracted to manufacture, in order to ascertain whether these conflict minerals originated in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo or an adjoining country (the Covered Countries) and financed or benefited armed groups in any of these countries. Our due diligence measures are described in this Conflict Minerals Report. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As a result of an order issued by the SEC on May&nbsp;2, 2014, registrants are not required to identify products as &#147;DRC conflict free,&#148; having
&#147;not been found to be &#145;DRC conflict free,&#146;&#148; or &#147;DRC conflict undeterminable,&#148; and Synopsys makes no such identification of its products in this report. Synopsys has not obtained an independent private sector audit of
its Conflict Minerals Report because, under guidance provided by the SEC&#146;s Division of Corporation Finance on April&nbsp;29, 2014, an audit is not required unless a registrant voluntarily describes its products as &#147;DRC conflict free.&#148;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Company Overview </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Synopsys delivers trusted and comprehensive silicon to systems design solutions, from electronic design automation (EDA), including system verification and
validation solutions, to silicon intellectual property (IP). We partner closely with semiconductor and systems customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their engineering and research and development capacity. We are catalyzing the era
of pervasive intelligence, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We are a global leader in supplying the mission-critical EDA
software that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits, also known as chips or silicon, and we are pioneering artificial intelligence driven chip design across the full-stack EDA suited to improve efficiency and accelerate the design,
verification testing and manufacturing of advanced digital and analog chips. We provide software and hardware used to validate the electronic systems that incorporate chips and the software that runs on them, including cloud-based digital design
flow to boost chip-design development productivity. We also provide technical services and support to help our customers develop advanced chips and electronic systems. These products and services are part of our Design Automation segment. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We also offer a broad and comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor IP solutions, which are <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">pre-designed</FONT> circuits that
engineers use as components of larger chip designs to reduce integration risk and speed time to market. Our high quality, silicon-proven semiconductor IP includes logic libraries, embedded memories, analog IP, wired and wireless interface IP,
security IP, embedded processors and subsystems. To accelerate IP integration and silicon <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">bring-up,</FONT> our IP Accelerated initiative provides architecture design expertise, hardening, and signal and power
integrity analysis. These products and services are part of our Design IP segment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Although we are primarily a software, IP, and service provider, we
also offer several hardware products, including hardware systems that engineers can use to simulate the chips they are in the process of designing. This allows engineers to test and verify the behavior of chips or begin to develop software for them
before the chips have been manufactured. Hardware products make up a relatively small percentage of our overall revenue. The customers for our hardware products are typically semiconductor and electronic systems companies, not consumers. Our
hardware products are used as part of our customers&#146; internal design processes and are not integrated into our customers&#146; products. We have determined that some or all of the 3TG metals can be found in all of our hardware products and are
necessary to such hardware products&#146; functionality. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our hardware products depend on a highly complex supply chain, and we are separated by many levels in the supply chain from the smelters and refiners that
supply the underlying raw materials for our products. We contacted (i)&nbsp;our suppliers for our hardware products and (ii)&nbsp;the manufacturers of the components embedded in our hardware products, even when such components were purchased by our
contract manufacturers and not directly by Synopsys, in each case, with respect to those products that are within the scope of Rule <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">13p-1</FONT> (such suppliers and component manufacturers are referred to
collectively as our &#147;suppliers&#148; in this report). We rely on our suppliers for information on the origin of the 3TG metals contained in the products supplied to us. It may take time for our suppliers to verify the origin of their 3TG metals
because of the complexity of the supply chain. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Conclusion of Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For this reporting year, we sought to survey all of our suppliers regarding the sources of their 3TG metals by retaining a third-party service provider. A
number of our suppliers provided complete data, while others did not provide us with sufficient data on the smelters and refiners in their supply chains. In addition, a number of the smelters and refiners identified by our suppliers have not yet
successfully completed an assessment against the applicable standard of the Responsible Minerals Initiative&#146;s (RMI) Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP) or an equivalent cross-recognized assessment, resulting in uncertainty about the
mines or locations of origin for the minerals used by these smelters and refiners. Based upon the results of our reasonable country of origin inquiry, we have reason to believe that the 3TG metals contained in our hardware products may have
originated from the Covered Countries. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Due Diligence Design </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Synopsys&#146; conflict minerals program has been designed to materially conform to the framework set forth in <I>The Organisation for Economic <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">Co-operation</FONT> and Development Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas</I> &#150; <I>Third Edition</I> and the related <I>Supplement on Gold</I> and
<I>Supplement on Tin, Tantalum and Tungsten</I>. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Due Diligence Measures Performed </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Management Systems </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Conflict Minerals Policy </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Synopsys maintains a
conflict minerals policy that sets forth our expectation that our suppliers will assist us in our supply chain due diligence efforts. Our policy is publicly available on our website at
<I>https://www.synopsys.com/company/corporate-social-responsibility/supply-chain.html</I>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Conflict Minerals Program Governance Team </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our conflict minerals program governance team maintains our conflict minerals policy and manages our conflict minerals compliance program. The team consists of
representatives from legal, finance, and hardware operations. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Control Systems </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As we do not have a direct relationship with 3TG metal smelters or refiners, and because our hardware business does not represent a significant part of our
business, in comparison to our software products and services, we rely on industry-wide initiatives to improve supply chain transparency and encourage responsible sourcing of minerals, particularly the RMI. For this reporting year, we used the RMI
Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (CMRT) to survey our suppliers regarding the origin of the 3TG metals contained in the products supplied to us. The RMI identifies upstream participants in the supply chain and validates smelters and refiners as
conformant with RMAP standards. As part of our due diligence program for this reporting year, we checked smelters and refiners identified by our suppliers against the RMI&#146;s conformant smelter and refiner lists (Conformant Smelter and Refiner
Lists). </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For this reporting year, our third-party service provider conducted outreach with our suppliers and managed the supplier survey process. The service provider
provided our suppliers with access to its conflict minerals supplier resource center, through which our suppliers were able to review our conflict minerals policy, receive training regarding compliance with our conflict minerals program, and obtain
information on conflict minerals reporting requirements, the RMAP, and the CMRT. The service provider oversaw the surveying of our suppliers, which included <FONT STYLE="white-space:nowrap">e-mail</FONT> and phone contact escalations for
unresponsive suppliers and requests for further information or clarification from suppliers that provided incomplete or inconsistent responses. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Grievance Mechanism </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our public whistleblower
hotline is available to report, confidentially and anonymously, violations of our policies or unethical behavior, including grievances related to conflict minerals due diligence and reporting. Our hotline is hosted on a third-party server at
<I>https://secure.ethicspoint.com/domain/media/en/gui/21287/index.html</I>. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Record Maintenance </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We stored the survey responses we received from our suppliers in an internal electronic file library. These records will be maintained for at least seven
years, in accordance with Synopsys&#146; Document Retention Policy. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Identifying and Assessing Risk in the Supply Chain </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We rely on our suppliers to provide us with information about the sources of the 3TG metals contained in the products they supply. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Identifying Relevant Suppliers </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">For this reporting
year, we sought to survey all of our suppliers. Additionally, we identified high-priority suppliers that made up a significant percentage of our hardware product spending (High-Priority Suppliers). High-Priority Suppliers received an enhanced review
in our due diligence process, which we believe is consistent with a risk-based approach to due diligence. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Information Requests </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We used the CMRT to survey our suppliers. The CMRT facilitates the transfer of information regarding supplier sourcing of 3TG metals. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Reviewing Supplier Information </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our third-party
service provider reviewed our suppliers&#146; responses for completeness and consistency. Synopsys also reviewed these responses against an internally developed list of &#147;red flags&#148; designed to identify responses that are incomplete,
implausible, or that indicate heightened risk, such as responses reporting sourcing of 3TG metal from a Covered Country. High-Priority Suppliers were reviewed for additional red flags. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Smelter and Refiner Assessment </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our third-party
service provider reviewed a consolidated list of the smelters and refiners identified by our suppliers and compared the smelter and refiner names against the RMI&#146;s list of standard smelter and refiner names (the Smelter Reference List) to
assess the quality of the information provided to us and determine whether all identified smelters and refiners were, in fact, smelters and refiners. Our third-party service provider further compared smelter and refiner names against the Conformant
Smelter and Refiner Lists. Validation under the RMAP is voluntary, and the RMAP makes no conclusions about the conflict status of sourcing by a smelter or refiner that is not on the Conformant Smelter and Refiner Lists. We also reviewed the
countries of the identified smelters and refiners, as provided by our suppliers, to see if they are located in a high-risk area, such as in or adjacent to the Covered Countries. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Respond to Risks </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our conflict minerals program includes risk mitigation measures. Our expectations regarding cooperation with our due diligence process were communicated to our
suppliers in our conflict minerals policy (available on our website and through our third-party service provider&#146;s conflict minerals supplier resource center), through a cover letter accompanying the CMRT sent to suppliers, and through <FONT
STYLE="white-space:nowrap">web-based</FONT> training offered by our third-party service provider. As described above, we reviewed our suppliers&#146; responses for red flags, and our review was heightened for High-Priority Suppliers. We followed up
with suppliers whose responses indicated heightened risk, such as responses reporting the sourcing of 3TG metal from a Covered Country. Suppliers that presented heightened risk were identified to our hardware products teams. We will evaluate, in
light of all relevant factors, whether to continue our relationship with such suppliers. </P>
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summary of this report and our results were reported to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Board of Directors. We will evaluate our risk mitigation framework to determine if there are affirmative steps we can
take to improve the completeness and accuracy of the information we receive. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Supporting Independent Third-Party Audits of Supply Chain Due Diligence at Identified Points in the Supply
Chain </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We do not have a direct relationship with the smelters or refiners of the 3TG metals contained in our products, and we
therefore did not perform or direct audits of these entities. We relied on the RMI to audit smelters and refiners and validate them as conformant with RMAP standards and to identify smelters and refiners that had successfully completed an equivalent
cross-recognized assessment. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:18pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Reporting on Supply Chain Due Diligence </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">This Conflict Minerals Report is publicly available on our website at <I>https://www.synopsys.com/company/global-citizenship/supply-chain.html</I>. </P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman; " ALIGN="left"><B>Due Diligence Results </B></P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Smelters and Refiners </I></B></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We received CMRT responses
from approximately 91% of our suppliers. These responses encompass products that account for over 99% of our spending on hardware products for this reporting year. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Our suppliers identified 256 gold refiners, 71 tantalum smelters, 193 tin smelters, and 104 tungsten smelters. We compared these identified smelters and
refiners against the RMI&#146;s Conformant Smelter and Refiner Lists. As of May&nbsp;1, 2025, approximately 36% of gold refiners, 59% of tantalum smelters, 38% of tin smelters, and 38% of tungsten smelters have successfully completed an assessment
against the applicable RMI standard or an equivalent cross-recognized assessment. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Countries of Origin of Conflict Minerals </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Although we reviewed the countries of the smelters and refiners identified by our suppliers, the locations of these facilities do not necessarily indicate the
countries of origin of the 3TG metals processed by such facilities. If a smelter or refiner is not conformant with RMAP standards or certified under a similar initiative, it may not be possible to draw a reliable conclusion about the ultimate source
of its metals. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">In addition, a majority of suppliers provided smelter and refiner information at a company or divisional level, rather than at a product
level. We therefore cannot be sure whether all of the identified smelters and refiners provided 3TG metal that was included in the products actually supplied to us. For these reasons, we have incomplete information regarding the countries of origin
of our conflict minerals. </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman"><B><I>Efforts to Determine Mines or Locations of Origin </I></B></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">As a downstream company that is separated by multiple levels in the supply chain from the smelters and refiners that supply materials for our products, we have
determined that surveying our suppliers with the CMRT and collecting the resulting smelter and refiner information is the most reasonable available approach to determining the mines or locations of origin of 3TG metals in our supply chain. We rely
on the RMI to audit smelters and refiners that source 3TG metals and validate them as conformant with RMAP standards and to identify smelters and refiners that have successfully completed an equivalent cross-recognized assessment. </P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">We intend to take the following steps to help mitigate the risk that the necessary conflict minerals in our products could finance or benefit armed groups in
the Covered Countries. </P> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Continue to actively engage with our suppliers to attempt to increase their response rate and to improve the
content of their CMRT responses. </P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="font-size:6pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Monitor suppliers that indicate potential sourcing of 3TG metals from the Covered Countries to determine whether
such sourcing is being conducted in a responsible way, such as through smelters and refiners that have successfully completed an assessment against the applicable RMAP standard or an equivalent cross-recognized assessment. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left" STYLE=" margin-top:0pt ; margin-bottom:0pt; font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:10pt">Evaluate, in light of all relevant factors, whether to continue our relationship with suppliers that are
unresponsive to our requests for conflict minerals information or that present a heightened risk of sourcing linked to conflict without a plan to remediate such risk. </P></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Statements relating to further risk
mitigation and certain other statements are forward-looking in nature and are based on Synopsys&#146; current expectations or beliefs. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of performance and are subject to a number of uncertainties
and other factors that may be outside of Synopsys&#146; control and that could cause actual events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the statements made herein. The information provided herein is as of May 30, 2025. Synopsys
undertakes no duty, and does not intend, to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, unless required by law. </P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE </P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6pt; margin-bottom:0pt; font-size:10pt; font-family:Times New Roman">Unless otherwise stated
herein, any documents, third-party materials or references to websites (including Synopsys&#146;) are not incorporated by reference in, or considered to be a part of this Conflict Minerals Report. </P>
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