You ate a big bowl of cereal today BillyG, and are working extra hard. Thanks for your work, as so many benefit. I really liked this piece on TSMC
making sure that it will have the tools to do what CUBE needs to add value to its products. One Q though. The following paragraph got my attention;
About Inventra
The Inventra division of Mentor Graphics is the world's leading
independent provider of reusable intellectual property for the
system-on-chip
industry. The extensive Inventra product line provides EDA
tool-independent
physical libraries (memories, standard cell and datapaths) and
CoreAlliance
products, including ATM, 10/100Mb/1Gb Ethernet, R3000, MPEG-2 and Analog
Devices ADSP21xx cores. Inventra's IP products lower the cost of
implementing
design reuse, allowing designers more time to focus on unique,
value-added
circuitry.
They are also selling enabling technology to those who would like to take CUBE's place?
Jean Paul, not long ago you said, "also, i am starting to think it might be a good idea for CUBE to go into
the business of making their own DVD players... any thoughts? does
anyone know if CUBE is planning this?"
This new division suggests they are going to persue getting their technology transformed into useful consumer products ASAP. David's vision is a little closer today. Rather than DVD players I think they will go for convergence. DVD plus other things. |
