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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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