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Yalta is Dead! Synopsys offensive in VIP restart the cold war-February 28, 2012 |
Last year, you could claim (like I did in this blog) that Cadence was making money with large VIP port-folio, when Synopsys was managing sales of a large Design IP port-folio (thanks to a successful acquisition strategy in the 2000’s). But the latest acquisitions made by Synopsys of VIP centric companies like nSys or ExpertIO should have warned us (and Cadence, by the way): the EDA and IP centric company is investing the VIP field! After the acquisitions time come the new product launch, today the market is discovering… Discovery.