Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification
Super quick, as I (virtually) run between events: Siemens Digital Industries Software just announced that it has signed an agreement with PRO DESIGN Electronic GmbH to acquire its proFPGA product family of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) desktop prototyping...
Autodesk wants Altium’s PCB design but, so far, no deal
Last night in the US // early Monday in Australia, Altium and Autodesk announced that a deal may be in the offing. Autodesk has offered AUD38.50 (Australian dollars) per share for Altium, the maker of EDA solutions for printed circuit board designers, but Altium's...
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD
Siemens just announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Siemens says that Nextflow’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver doesn't require the analyst to create a mesh, making it suitable for non-experts...
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder
So much news, so little time! 3D Systems continues to reinvent itself, announcing this week that it sold off its on-demand manufacturing service to Trilantic North America, a private equity firm, for $82 million, subject to certain closing conditions and adjustments....
AVEVA says demand improved in H2, leading to FY2021 pro forma revenue up 2% occ — it’s complicated
There's a lot going on at AVEVA, with the close of the OSIsoft acquisition, the end of a fiscal year, a new CEO, a global pandemic, and the recovery (or not) of the energy and manufacturing sectors -- so this will, by necessity, be a two-part blog. First, a rehash of...
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress
Bentley reported results way back on May 11 but I haven't had time to finish a deeper analysis -- so here's a quick piece on those results and a little bit on what it all means. Even more quickly: Bentley's off to a great start for 2021. Some details: Bentley reported...
Procore finally IPOs; valued at $8.5 billion
No doubt about it: the market for makers of IT solutions targeted at the construction industry is HOT. Procore finally completed its initial public offering yesterday, raising $635 million by selling 9.5 million shares at $67 per share on the New York Stock Exchange....
Siemens to acquire Supplyframe for EDA supply chain, broader digital marketplace
I just noticed that Siemens today announced that it will acquire Supplyframe for $700 million, in a deal that is expected to close sometime before the end of September 2021. I am not familiar with Supplyframe so have asked for more information but here's what the...
Ansys acquires Phoenix Integration & its ModelCenter
Ansys just announced that it has acquired Phoenix Integration, maker of ModelCenter, a tool used by many who apply the principles of model-based engineering (MBE) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The point of MBE/MBSE is to automate engineering processes...
4 on a Wednesday: AspenTech mulls partial sale; Siemens, 3D Systems, and Procore acquire (not each other)
There's so much going on that it's time for a mid-week news roundup: You saw that Autodesk completed its Upchain acquisition, so we won't cover that again. But there's much more to go over: Earlier today, Bloomberg reported that Aspen Tech is exploring its strategic...