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#659 – Altium…Acquired!

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  • Renesas buying Altium
  • Altium bought Octopart in 2017
  • Tasking debugger
  • Cloud focus after reorg
  • History of Protel / Altium – started in 1985 by Nick Martin
  • Turbo Pascal
  • CAD tool for windows in 90s
  • protel99
  • Altium Buys Morfik in 2010
  • Nick booted out 
  • After the reorg, the stock steadily grew
  • You can watch the Renesas/Altium announcement on Zoom 
  • There is also a slide deck available
  • Dave linked an article from the financial press in Austrailia
  • Zuken
  • Altera is apparently spinning back out
  • Steve Liebsen on The Amp Hour
  • Intel is getting a $10B chunk of the CHIPS act money
  • Steve Sanghi (Microchip) discussed the act when he was on the show
  • Synergy flavored milk
  • Other properties we forgot were part of Altium:
    • Circuit Studio
    • Upverter (formerly on the show!)
    • Gumstix
  • Autotrax – Taylor’s version (DEX PCB just…took the name?)

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  1. Bill says

    March 11, 2024 at 6:06 am

    https://www.renesas.com/us/en/about/press-room/regarding-acquisition-stock-altium-limited

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