Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics in $4.5B deal

by fazkan on 11/14/2016, 12:30 PM with 40 comments
  • by nickpsecurity on 11/14/2016, 3:46 PM

    This isn't good news. One of my ideas for open, secure hardware involved a partial or whole acquisition of Mentor by a company that was pro-FOSS. Then, the product lines would be tweaked for easy verification. Plus deals for hardware startups that got them the tools cheap to free early on with guaranteed revenue for Mentor if successful.

    Now, one of the Big 3 of EDA is in the hands of a large corporation far from our interests. This kind of thing happens a lot. It's to be expected. Oh well.

  • by lmedinas on 11/14/2016, 2:30 PM

    Also related since both, Mentor and Harman, have a strong automotive business: https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-to-acqui...

  • by sguav on 11/14/2016, 4:34 PM

    Intel->Altera,

    Siemens->Mentor,

    It'll be interesting to check Siemens' Modelsim - Intel edition and to see if they will eventually move to Qt for the GUI!

  • by valarauca1 on 11/14/2016, 7:55 PM

    Alt Headline: Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics for 0.15 LinkedIns, or .23 WhatsApps

  • by raverbashing on 11/14/2016, 1:25 PM

    Hopefully it will not get (too much) infected by corporate red tape and inefficiencies of the parent company

  • by barrkel on 11/14/2016, 1:17 PM

    $4.5B, not $45B.