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It’s likely that most of the current Semiwiki readers didn’t read this article posted in 2011, comparing Cadence and Synopsys with the Soviet Union and the USA, sharing the world in 1944 during the Yalta Conference. I was explaining in my post that Synopsys’s strong influence was on Design IP when Cadence’s preferred domain was on Verification IP. A kind of “Yalta effect” applied to the electronic design area (not to world regions!). If you missed this article, don’t worry as the content is no more relevant! Synopsys is still dominant in the IP business when excluding the large processor IP core segment (with $342 million revenues in 2013), but the company is also massively investing the VIP business, as we can see on the table below. To be fair, I must say that Cadence is also playing in Synopsys’s garden, investing in the Design IP business. But let’s take a look at the latest VIP news

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