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Mentor puts its money where its DFT mouth is

Today it was announced that Mentor Graphics and LogicVision have put pen to paper on a deal that will, if all goes to plan, make LogicVision a wholly owned subsidiary of Mentor. The move will cost Mentor $13 million in Mentor common stock (0.2006 MENT shares per LGVN share). Oh, as the EDA world turns…

Update on Credence/LTX Merger

Just wanted to point to Sramana Mitra’s take on the merger.  One of the last paragraphs in the article brought up an interesting point:
Consolidation is a necessity for the ATE industry just as much as the EDA industry. In fact, a whole new layer of consolidation that bridges the design side and the test side [...]

Industry consolidation – M&A’s not just for EDA

My interest was piqued as much as anyone else when I saw the public outing of Cadence’s hostile bid for Mentor last week. But as a DFT guy trying to look objectively at how this might [...]