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Archive for June 20th, 2008

Merger mania? What will happen in ESL if Cadence swallows Mentor?

Posted: Friday, June 20th, 2008 @ 12:34 am in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

I’m no Nostradamus, and was of course taken by surprise with the rest of the electronics world when on Monday June 16 I heard that Cadence was going to try to do a hostile takeover of Mentor Graphics.
Carlo Antonio Tavella, Jonah and the whale, mid-17th. century
Cadence has had a long-chequered history in ESL, starting [...]