PEACHTREE CITY, GA – OCTOBER 15, 2026 – Registration for the technical conference at the PCB West conference and exhibition held in the Silicon Valley last month grew 60% year-over-year,
Tag Archives: Cadence
The masses are atwitter over the announced Renesas acquisition of Altium, and for good reason. The $5.9 billion price tag is some real coin. What’s less clear to almost everyone outside the two companies, however, is the underlying strategy and how the merged entity will look going forward.
On PCB Chat this week we talk with Mark Hepburn, the new director of product management at Cadence. Some industry veterans may remember Mark from a few years back — he
Steve Chidester was a class act. EDA software can be a cutthroat place, but good luck finding someone who would even think of saying something unkind about Steve. Known inside Cadence as “Mr.
Chasing the vertical OEMs is not a new strategy in EDA. But it is becoming that much more widespread as the major players extend their reach from automotive (long the
Another price/performance battle is heating up in PCB design software, and this time Altium could feel the burn. Altium has experienced decent growth over the past few years, reaching about $75 million
As the major CAD vendors hold their quarterly conference calls, one thing to watch is whether analysts are asking about PCB design tools. For the most part, they aren’t. So
Cadence today announced the release of point revisions to both Allegro and OrCAD, continuing its tradition of keeping releases of its major platforms in sync. They show significant upgrades in
The herd is riding on the EDA vendors, almost all of which are at or near 52-week high share prices. In the past week, Cadence, Mentor and Synopsys hit or
Cadence’s acquisition of Sigrity, announced yesterday, is a big deal for reasons beyond the technology being acquired. Sure, it’s great for Cadence to gets its hands on Sigrity’s power and
- 1
- 2