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While EDAs truly are ridiculous expensive garbage, their cost is a pocket change in the age of billion dollar startups without a selling product. It's just you
by baybal2 6y ago
While EDAs truly are ridiculous expensive garbage, their cost is a pocket change in the age of billion dollar startups without a selling product.
It's just you actually have to make some working product in semiconductors, it's a substantial technical undertaking, and thus a big turn off for the aforementioned billion dollar internet startups.
- monocasa 6y agoThe six figure per seat cost of cadence is a lot to the point of being unobtainable for even early stage of what would become unicorns. It's not like giant checks are generally being written to these startups that have no users and no engineering done yet.
- varispeed 6y agoIsn't that, at least for digital application, many chips can be replaced with FPGA, CPLD or just a good old CPU? Only recently you can see some companies reproducing audio IC from the 80s, but not much of original work. It seems like there is a huge niche in that space, but probably companies think it is too small to be profitable.