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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
To finish off our series of predictions, I would like to point you to another series of interesting and informative prophesies. Click on the following topics to see these predictions collected by Brian Bailey, Editor of EDA DesignLine.
Industry Trends
Tools
ESL
IP and Physical Design
The Bold Prediction for EDA
A big THANK YOU from Ed & me (Liz) to all who shared their eye opening predictions with us. Click on their names to see their predictions. Mike Gianfagna, Karen Bartleson, Paul McLellan, Jens Andersen, Bob Smith, Steve Schulz, Mathias Silvant, Herb Reiter, Max Maxfield, Chris Edwards, John Barr.
Only time will tell……
 The Persistence of Memory, 1931, Salvador Dali
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
In 2012, we’ll see tablets and smartphones changing the world. That’s another way of saying Apple’s moves will have huge implications in semiconductors, foundries and EDA.
Apple’s use of the Samsung foundry has started an arms race between Samsung, TSMC and Global Foundries. Samsung is ramping up to meet the capabilities and capacity of TSMC. Intel is being pushed to stay ahead technologically and to consider new business models. Global Foundries continues to work to ramp its yields.
This situation will be good for semiconductor equipment and EDA vendors as well. Their tools will facilitate the new processes and the link between design and manufacturing.
Another element: in 2012, we’ll see the supply chain continue to consolidate. Why? The cost to design a complex SoC requires a big budget and a big market opportunity. Only the largest of semiconductor companies can tackle these designs. This increasing cost helps the FPGA vendors.
The foundries face increasing technology and capital requirements to move to new process nodes. Only a few will make it.
The public markets have been closed to EDA companies for a number of years making acquisition the most likely exit for EDA startups. Apache chose to be acquired by Ansys in 2011. It has been difficult for a new, large EDA competitor to emerge. This bodes well for Big EDA in its negotiations with Big Foundry and Big Semiconductor. In 2012 I believe there are several EDA companies poised to go public.
Who will be the beneficiary of these changes in 2012? Apple. Consumers should also benefit as new, leading edge fab capacity will be used to make exciting new devices.
John Barr
Portfolio Manager
Needham Aggressive Growth Fund
Needham Growth Fund
445 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022
(212) 705-0462
Tags: 2012, Ansys, Apple, EDA, EDA & IP, Electronic Design Automation, Finance, foundries, Global Foundries, Intel, investment, IP, Lee PR, Needham, Samsung, Semiconductor IP, semiconductors, SoC, System on Chip, TSMC, www.leepr.com
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
How are you going to
SHOW ME THE MONEY
In EDA?
Get the answers from noted EDA & IP investor Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan – industry pundit and editor-in-chief of DAC Knowledge Center – as they define the new path to prosperity in EDA & IP.
Jim and Paul will give a short presentation and steer an audience-oriented discussion on what direction startups and established companies in the EDA & IP space ought to steer if they want to show their investors the money.
What direction? SOC Realization…no longer just a vision. It’s the sweet spot in EDA & IP – where to invest and where to anchor your EDA/IP startup. So if you are contemplating starting up or re-igniting a company in the EDA & IP space, this session will help you think about how your technology will analyze and verify design concepts much earlier in the design process…at much higher levels of abstraction than before.
Where’s the opportunity? SoC Realization as a cockpit to guide a design from concept to implementation, ensuring that the design is synchronized for both the hardware and software aspects of the system’s functionality.
What’s the upshot? These changes in the SoC Realization supply chain will alter the 1) relative values of the chain’s components and 2) ability to leverage that value into profit. SoC Realization will revalue every entity in EDA & IP – the company you want to start up, or the one you’re working for.
When: Monday, June 6, 10-11am
Where: DAC, Room 24A
Please RSVP: Liz Massingill, liz@leepr.com
For more information, contact Liz @ 831-345-4702
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Tags: DAC #48DAC, EDA, EDA360, investment, IP, Jim Hogan, Paul McLellan, Semiconductor, SoC, SoC Realization
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Monday, May 16th, 2011
Jim Hogan & Paul McLellan challenge the EDA industry to……
Show me the money
on DAC Free Monday
I’m jumping up & down with excitement? Are you? Then see details below…..
Who: Noted EDA & IP investor Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan – industry pundit and editor-in-chief of DAC Knowledge Center
What: Define the state and future of, and path to prosperity for EDA & IP industry.
Format will be a short presentation, then audience-oriented discussion on what direction startups and established companies in the EDA & IP space ought to steer if they want to show their investors the money.
Why: This session will help attendees think about how their companies’ technology will have to analyze and verify design concepts much earlier in the design process…at much higher levels of abstraction than before. That’s where the money in EDA & IP will be in the coming years.
Hogan and McLellan will propose that EDA & IP companies will have to help users guide their SoC designs from concept to implementation, ensuring that the design is synchronized for both the hardware and software aspects of the system’s functionality.
What’s the upshot? These changes in the SoC realization supply chain will alter the: 1) relative values of the chain’s components; 2) ability to leverage that value into profit; an 3) valuing of every entity in EDA & IP – the company you want to start up, or the one you’re working for.
When: Monday, June 6, 10-11am
Where: DAC, Room 24A
Please RSVP: Liz Massingill, liz@leepr.com, Lee PR
For more information, contact Liz @ 831-345-4702
Tags: DAC, DAC'11, EDA, investment, IP, Jim Hogan, Paul McLellan, startup
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