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#659 – Altium…Acquired!
- Renesas buying Altium
- Altium bought Octopart in 2017
- Tasking debugger
- Cloud focus after reorg
- History of Protel / Altium – started in 1985 by Nick Martin
- Turbo Pascal
- CAD tool for windows in 90s
- protel99
- Altium Buys Morfik in 2010
- Nick booted out
- After the reorg, the stock steadily grew
- You can watch the Renesas/Altium announcement on Zoom
- There is also a slide deck available
- Dave linked an article from the financial press in Austrailia
- Zuken
- Altera is apparently spinning back out
- Steve Liebsen on The Amp Hour
- Intel is getting a $10B chunk of the CHIPS act money
- Steve Sanghi (Microchip) discussed the act when he was on the show
- Synergy flavored milk
- Other properties we forgot were part of Altium:
- Circuit Studio
- Upverter (formerly on the show!)
- Gumstix
- Autotrax – Taylor’s version (DEX PCB just…took the name?)