alt Hacker NewsI wonder if an Alphabet or an Elon Musk would be willing to buy one of these and open source their software tooling. Same for Xilinx.
Open source tools could grow the market by letting many more creators afford to make designs, effectively commoditizing the manufacturers complement.
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vrighter • today at 12:53 PM
but on the other hand, because placement and routing isn't a problem that has an easily calculable solution. Their algorithms and heuristics are their secret sauce. If one is in the lead, it would be a very big step towards helping raise their competitors up to their level. Not that I agree with it, but there you go.
dooglius • today at 12:56 PM
Xilinx literally was bought and it didn't happen
Synopsys has a $100B market cap. Why would Alphabet buy them and open source the IP? That makes no economic sense.