Design IP round #2: after road-test, time for the race
May 10, 2013
Design IP, at least Interface IP, is about 15 years old, but the market was made of one large provider - Synopsys- with many small vendors around. Chip makers were not very comfortable with this picture, especially the Tier 1 considering that the risk (to see the big one being acquired by one of their direct competitor, say Samsung or Intel) was unacceptable. This was the picture in 2010: Synopsys leader on every Interface IP segment, Cadence leader in Verification IP, but only in VIP, and many small IP vendors acting like an electron cloud around Synopsys atom… Moreover, the market value of design IP was 5X the VIP market value, and this is still the case!
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