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Renesas Acquires Altium

Renesas, Japanese semicon giant announced the completion of successful acquisition of Altium.
Renesas acquired all the outstanding shares of Altium at $68.5 per share, for a total equity value of approximately A$9.1 billion.

Let's see what value this strategic acquisition bring to the customers!

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michaelkellett over 1 year ago

I suspect that it will hasten Altium's demise (I am a bit biased - I have never liked their product - right back to when it was Protel).

Rival semiconductor companies will be very reluctant to use a competitors PCB design product for dev boards etc.

I expect more money and support heading in Kicad's direction.

MK
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aswinvenu over 1 year ago in reply to michaelkellett

Kicad has come a long way. I have been using it for years now. Kicad 8 is truely a matured PCB Design tool.
More advanced plugins are in pipeline for the Kicad 9 release. If Kicad can keep the momentum, They will do really good.
I wish more companies come foreard to support their funding.
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dougw over 1 year ago

It seems to be a trend with Siemens acquiring Mentor and Renesas acquiring Altium.

I wonder what the business case is....
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dang74 over 1 year ago

I had no idea that Altium had a market cap just shy of $10 Billion.
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DAB over 1 year ago

With all these types of acquisitions, you have to wait until they unveil what they are going to do with the combined company.
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