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...
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...
Aug 22, 2024 | Hot Topics
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...
Mar 27, 2024 | Hot Topics
Catchup: Bentley gets a new CEO, Francisco acquires Jama, JDM buys Penta and STRUXI, Stratasys snaps up Arevo’s IP, Synopsys+Ansys still a go Happy Spring! While you’ve been out gathering daffodils (not us – we had snow last weekend here in New...
Jan 29, 2024 | Hot Topics
4 on a Monday: SAP and Sandvik report results, GT acquires, more on Synopsys+Ansys PLMish and PLM-adjacent earnings ramp up this week, with PTC, Hexagon, Dassault Systèmes, and others announcing, but we’ve already some news. SAP, the enterprise software biggie,...
Jan 16, 2024 | Hot Topics
“Synopsys to Acquire Ansys, Creating a Leader in Silicon to Systems Design Solutions” Well … now we know. Synopsys announced that it plans to acquire Ansys. Deal details below, but look at their headline (press release here), pasted as the title of...
Jan 15, 2024 | Hot Topics
Welcome to 2024! Deal fever continues … I hope you were able to catch a little downtime over the year-end and that your 2024 is off to a great start. We had three winter storms in a week, lost power, shoveled a lot of snow — and are looking at more of the same...
May 26, 2023 | Hot Topics
It’s a wrap: A recap of PTC Liveworx 2023 Big user events are back! PTC’s Liveworx filled the Boston Convention Center, a full 12-minute walk from end to end. We had Creo users, Windchill admins, Codebeamer coders, Vuforia wizards, Servigitics partners,...
May 16, 2023 | Hot Topics
Ansys acquires Diakopto, adding to its IC simulation arsenal I’m missing a Vuforia party, so this will be brief: Ansys just announced that it will acquire Diakopto, maker of integrated circuit (IC) simulation solutions — specifically, to find problems...
