( ESNUG 542 Item 4 ) -------------------------------------------- [05/27/14]
Subject: Questions for Amit Gupta, CEO of Solido
Cooley's DAC 2014 Troublemaker's Panel
Date/Time: Monday, June 2, 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: Room 236/238, Moscone Center, San Francisco
IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THIS DAC PANEL, SIGN-UP HERE.
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QUESTIONS FOR AMIT GUPTA
I heard that Ravi was going to buy you at BDA.
Is Mentor going to acquire Solido now that Ravi's there?
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TO AMIT:
Who do you want to acquire you and for how much?
Who do you not want to acquire you?
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How much will Synopsys lose in memory SPICE sales to Mentor?
Does Ravi have a serious chance?
What about the Magma FineSim renewals coming up?
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Amit:
What do you think of the new Cadence XPS memory simulator?
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Is Synopsys ever going to merge all their SPICE simulators?
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Is Ravi going to get lost in the Mentor bureaucracy?
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Is TSMC really telling their customers to not trust their corner
models and they must do Monte Carlo?
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How many sigma do I really need to design to at 16 nm?
Won't you always claim 6-sigma or higher to sell more licenses?
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Amit:
What do you think of the Cadence-BDA lawsuit?
Did Cadence win or lose?
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I saw in DeepChip the back and forth you are having with Cadence.
Does Cadence hate you?
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Is Ravi out for revenge after the Cadence lawsuit?
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Is Cadence shutting you out of its Analog Design Environment?
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Why is Cadence blocking you from integrating into ADE-XL?
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Solido:
Are you guys profitable? How much VC money did you raise?
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What's it like raising money in EDA these days?
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To Amit:
What do you think of Tom Beckley at Cadence and their custom
leadership?
What do you think of Antun Domic at Synopsys and their custom
leadership?
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If you were Aart, what would you do in custom EDA?
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Are you guys just a bad competitor to ADE XL?
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Who is winning the SPICE wars?
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Which SPICE is best for FinFETs? BE SPECIFIC. NAME NAMES.
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Jim Hogan or Lucio Lanza -- why did you go with Jim?
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Do you buy Gary Smith's Market Trends report?
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What's it like using Canadian VC's?
How are they different from US VC's?
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Haven't heard about Infinisim. Are they still around?
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Is Silvaco reentering the SPICE market?
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Who is your biggest competitor?
What would they say about Solido if they were here?
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Why does TSMC use your software?
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Is Apple your customer?
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Is Intel using you for 14 nm?
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