Flomerics management is urging shareholders to reject the bid by Mentor. This reminds me more of when Mentor tried to acquire Quickturn….

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If Denali falls in love with using the BlueSpec tools to create their IP then wouldn’t it make sense for them to merge sometime into the future?
If a merger were going to happen then I would expect an OEM agreement to be a likely next step.
Denali is gradually branching out of just verification IP so [...]

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Bad News
Mentor - Lost $0.30/share on revenue of $179.2M with estimates of Q2 revenue at $173M and a loss of $0.23/share. Q1 is historically Mentor’s weakest quarter plus they exited the IP business.
Good News
Synopsys - Earned $0.27/share on revenue of $324.6M with estimates for next quarter at $343M on the top end. The strong EDA [...]

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Mentor Graphics has bid to acquire Flomerics after purchasing some 26% of their stock.
Flomerics has simulators for: Electronics Cooling, Engineering Fluid Dynamics, and Building HVAC. What I see is that 1/3rd of Flomerics products have a direct connection to EDA, namely Electronics Cooling.
My son purchased an ultimate gaming system last year and has often run into [...]

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