Cadence CEO laments loss of VC in semis

SylvieBarak, EETimes
10/26/2011 2:24 PM EDT

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Collaboration and more semiconductor  VC investment is what’s needed to continue innovation in the hi-tech space, said Lip-Bu Tan, president and chief executive officer of Cadence Design Systems Inc., in a fireside chat with ARM’s executive vice Simon Seagers at TechCon.

With new technologies driving relationships between companies up and down the ecosystem, Tan--a longtime venture capitalist who remains chairman of Walden International, the VC fund he founded in 1989--agreed that collaboration had become an essential ingredient to product innovation, from startups to larger, more established companies.

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