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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 software in the industrial simulation and analysis market....

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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 "the Transaction meets the requirements of section 96(2) of the...

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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 Keysight last year acquired ESI Group … Anyway, Synopsys...

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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. The companies say these funds will be used to integrate NVIDIA's...

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Bentley acquires Cesium to iTwin 3D GIS workflows

I am still trying to get caught up on earnings digests, but this just jumped to the head of the queue: Bentley Systems just announced that it had acquired Cesium, makers of a very cool platform for creating (and using) geospatial applications; its 3D Tiles is a de...

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A wander through PLMish earnings so far

This has been an unusually long and somewhat fraught earnings season. We started with Dassault Systèmes' preannouncement, wandered through the drama around Autodesk's delayed publication of its fiscal 2024 (ended 31 January) annual report and subsequent Q1 filings...

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Super-quick: Renesas completes Altium acquisition

Renesas announced yesterday that it had completed the AUS$9.1 billion (Yen 887.9 billion; US$6 billion or so) acquisition of Altium and that Altium is now a Renesas subsidiary. In announcing the closing, Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata said, "The integrated and open...

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Super quick schnitgercorp.com RSS update

Do you still use RSS, Real Simple Syndication? I do -- it's an old-fashioned way of finding out who's written what without going to each blog site. Unfortunately, fewer websites are creating RSS feeds, and so the tools that we used to rely on no longer work (ahem ......

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DS starts PLMish earnings on a down note

And here we go—it’s the start of the third calendar quarter, which means we’ll hear from the publicly traded PLMish companies about how the second quarter went and what they expect for the rest of 2025. I admit, I didn’t see this one coming since general trends had...

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Tech Soft 3D adds Theorem to its portfolio

Tech Soft 3D just announced that it's buying Theorem Solutions, makers of advanced CAD data translators and publishing tools. I'm most recently aware of their Theorem XR, which builds on their 30 years of repurposing 3D data via translators and publishing tools. At a...

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Autodesk: everything is fine; nothing to see here

A quick update since so many of you have asked: On Friday, Autodesk said it had concluded its investigation into free cash flow and operating margin calculations and that there would be no restatement or adjustment of any previously released financial statements. In...

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