Cadence offers to buy Mentor Graphics for $1.45B

Jun 17, 2008 3 Replies

Worrying.....:-(

Hans

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EDA monopoly! But in the long run I think the real competition is going to be freeware.

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John Cooley has posted a copy of Fister's letter to Rhines:

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I wonder whether this will wake Synopsys up?

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