alt Hacker News> Normally better and cheaper design tools should only bring more customers to the foundries
What the foundries gain isn't clear, but they have more customers lined-up than they can serve, so they don't lose anything to it.
> Normally better and cheaper design tools should only bring more customers to the foundries
What the foundries gain isn't clear, but they have more customers lined-up than they can serve, so they don't lose anything to it.
Having talked to folks at two foundries, they were terrified of pissing off Cadnopsys. They wanted help with software w/o getting screwed over.
I am not sure that they have more business than they know what to do with, esp at larger node sizes. Most foundries are forever stuck at what their current node is. 40nm is still plenty good for the majority of long tail ICs.