Dec 10, 2024 | Hot Topics
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned? Yay! The PLMish earnings season finally ended last week. Rather than recap each individual set of results, I thought I’d take a bigger-picture look: What have we learned over the last six weeks of...
Oct 30, 2024 | Hot Topics
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion From Siemens: Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering … Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of...
Oct 25, 2024 | Hot Topics
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea Yes, there’s lots of earnings news to cover, but this just came across the inbox: the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys because...
Oct 22, 2024 | Hot Topics
MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note Mensch und Maschine reported its July/August/September results a few days ago. If you recall, Mensch und Maschine is both an Autodesk reseller and a supplier of its own software. As of mid-September, Autodesk...
Sep 26, 2024 | Hot Topics
Super-quick: additive manufacturing consolidation, this time for real Do you remember last year’s kerfuffle about Nano Dimensions acquiring and then not acquiring Desktop Metal, which itself wanted to merge with Stratasys, and then 3D Systems entered the mix? It...
Sep 20, 2024 | Hot Topics
Synopsys to sell optical assets to Keysight (maybe) Last night, Synopsys announced that it has agreed to sell its Optical Solutions Group (OSG) to Keysight Technologies. You may recall that Synopsys is in the process of seeking approval to acquire Ansys and that...
Sep 18, 2024 | Hot Topics
nTop secures investment from NVIDIA’s NVentures (Yes, many Ns, but that’s actually correct spelling and capitalization.) nTop, fka nTopology, just announced that it has received an unspecified investment from NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, NVentures....
