April 26, 2011, Mentor U2U, Santa Clara,CA—Wally Rhines described the dynamics of the design automation industry at the Mentor users’ group meeting. The EDA industry has fairly unique characteristics as a marketplace that seem to defy description and analysis. Mentor is growing and approaching $1B in total revenues. Some ask if EDA tracks industries like [...]
April 11, 2011, NAB, Las Vegas—We stopped at the Nvidia booth and talked to Mark Priscaro and Daniel Shapiro about their latest developments. They showed their partners’ hardware-software integrations. Partners include Adobe, ARRI, ASSIMILATE, Autodesk, Avid, Chyron, Pixel Power, Quantel, and Vizrt, among many others. GPUs are increasing their horsepower to do higher fidelity simulations [...]
