Here's Cadence hustling their PKS to some unsuspecting
customer. At the time, Cadence had no customer PKS tape-outs while Synopsys had 9 PhysOpt customer tape-outs.
The Synopsys people were all full of themselves
wearing buttons that said: "Got Tape-outs?"
Here's Synopsys hustling PhysOpt and Chip Architect to a group of customers.
"... so what's the biggest Purchase Order you're authorised to sign for, sir?"
And here's no one at the Monterey booth. (Again, no surprise there, either.)
And here's the Get2Chips.com guy flapping his wings.
I don't quite know what's going on here. (And I don't want to know, either...)