What's PR got to do with it? 
Ed Lee
Ed Lee has been around EDA since before it was called EDA. He cut his teeth doing Public Relations with Valid, Cadence, Mentor, ECAD, VLSI, AMI and a host of others. And he has introduced more than three dozen EDA startups, ranging from the first commercial IP company to the latest statistical … More » Predictions 2012 – ConsolidationJanuary 16th, 2012 by Ed Lee
I think that there will continue to be consolidation in the EDA industry. At each process node, fewer and fewer designs ship in high enough volume to recover the enormous investment in bringing them to market, which is a bad trend for EDA. Several companies in the ecosystem will go public if the market conditions remain favorable: eSilicon, Tensilica, Atrenta. Although, as with Apache, they may get acquired at the last minute (at high valuations). Mentor may get acquired, or sell off some business lines. Paul McLellan Tags: 2012, Atrenta, EDA, EDA & IP, EDA360, Electronic Design Automation, eSilicon, IP, Lee PR, Mentor, Semiconductor IP, semiconductors, semiwiki.com, Tensilica, www.leepr.com |
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