( ESNUG 507 Item 5 ) -------------------------------------------- [07/19/12]
Subject: Synopsys-Magma merger at the DAC'12 Troublemaker's Panel
Joe Sawicki won't comment on why Mentor didn't buy Magma, but
speaks on what a SNPS-LAVA means for the EDA industry overall.
Jim Hogan says SNPS-LAVA means higher P&R pricing, the impact
on the SPICE market, Richard Newton, it takes 10 years, what
makes EDA exciting, UC Berkeley hippies, 5 guys in a garage, a
#1 Synopsys is getting bigger but it won't last forever, General
Motors, Exxon, Apple, nothing lasts forever, watch who you step
on on the way up....
Gary Smith says SNPS-LAVA made sense because LAVA was hurting
SNPS sales, LAVA filled some holes in the SNPS flow, Wally
acquires to the winners, MENT believes in the best point tool
in every catagory -- not a flow based compant -- so MENT
couldn't buy it. SNPS loves buying point tools. SNPS-LAVA
should raise all P&R prices overall by 17.5 percent, LAVA had
great tools but sold too cheaply, it was good to get LAVA gone.
He forsees Aart having big trouble keeping the good Magma
engineers. Avanti and SNPS engineers hated each other. Also
SNPS is silo organized; LAVA was flow-based. Gary forsees a
"whole mess of new start-ups come up in the next 18 months."
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