( ESNUG 512 Item 3 ) -------------------------------------------- [10/18/12]
Subject: Cooley seeks help on CDNS/Intel/SNPS/MENT/ARM/Xilinx/Atop rumors
NOT ENOUGH TIME: With a mailing list of 33,000 readers, as you can guess I
recieve a lot of anonymous tips, rumors, "hints", etc. that I simply don't
have enough time to check out. If you can help on any of these (below)
I'd be grateful for the help. And, yes, you'll be ANONYMOUS! - John
- Cadence Encounter ETS (instead of Synopsys PrimeTime) has been used
by the Freescale Semiconductor engineers for final sign-off on
"hundreds of designs", but the Freescale CAD department won't give
Cadence a press release touting this.
- Intel signed a $200 million per year deal with Synopsys (up from
their prior $150 million per year deal) but Intel won't give Aart
a press release without Intel getting a big discount. Aart won't
discount, therefore Intel won't publicize the deal.
- [Overheard at DAC] Mentor Calibre is being used for DRC/LVS at 7 nm in
China. Unsure if Taiwan or mainland China. Don't know which fab(s).
- The secret TSMC-Synopsys cold war has flared up a bit because
Aart now wants TSMC to pay 18 percent more for his SNPS tools.
- Sonics failed an IPO back in 2008 and I "should look into it."
- Bluespec has far more users than what most people think. (i.e.
it has HW architect traction more than C-based design does.)
- Oasys RealTime Designer (a competitor to Design Compiler) is
dying because Oasys Sales VP, Craig Robbins, left to join Gradient.
- It's a year later. Aart bought Magma simply to kill off their
tools. Other than FineSim, all the LAVA tools are dead. (Is
anyone anywhere still using *any* of the former Magma tools?)
- There's a big unmet demand in Germany and the UK for Specman "e"
verification engineers.
- Now that Apache has settled into Ansys, Andrew Yang (CEO of Apache)
is now looking to draw other EDA companies into Ansys.
- Mentor and Cadence are both looking into acquiring Atrenta.
- GlobalFoundries is secretly buying the IBM fab in East Fishkill, NY.
- TSMC doesn't care about yield because since the 40 nm fiasco, all
of their manfacturing contracts are wafer-based pricing only. (i.e.
Since 40 nm, TSMC stopped selling contracts based on know-good-die.)
- Altera signed a big contract with TSMC to *leapfrog* past Xilinx to
20 nm and will have volume 20 nm FPGAs late 2013. (I find it hard
to believe that Xilinx doesn't have a similar 20 nm plan.)
- The infamous Gerry Hsu of Avanti is a secret AtopTech investor and/or
ghost board member and/or silent partner and/or evil Godfather.
- ARM keynote Simon Segars gave a rah-rah ARM-is-everywhere sales pitch
at the TSMC OIP event on Tuesday. As part of the lovefest, TSMC
said they're experimenting with 64-bit ARM cores in 16 nm FinFET.
- After being away 5 years, Robert Schopmeyer and Veritools (the maker
of Undertow) is back.
- Certain unnamed EDA vendors are nervous on how they will fare in the
4 week late (so far) upcoming Gary Smith Market Trends 2012 Report.
- ONE COOLEY SOLVED ON HIS OWN: "Hey, John, I emailed Joe Sawiki at Mentor
and it bounced! Has he left MGC?" I told this tipster he should email
Joe Sawicki instead; that's Sawicki with an added "c" and it worked. :)
And again, if you can help clarify any of these (above) rumors, tips, hints,
whatever I'd be very grateful. And, yes, you'll be ANONYMOUS!
- John Cooley
DeepChip.com Holliston, MA
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