Re: Exportability of EDA industry from North America?

From: JJ (johnjakson_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/16/04 

Date: 15 Dec 2004 21:03:24 -0800

EDA wannabe wrote:
> Some colleagues and I were discussing the situation with the high
tech
> industry, with jobs moving out of North America. This has hit
circuit
> designers hard, especially those in digital. Can EDA tool
development
> be expected to follow suit, is has it already happened? If not, what
> are the factors that differentiate it from design work to make it
less
> exportable? Comments are also welcome for automatation of
methodologies
> for programmable system-on-chip e.g. reconfigurable processor arrays.

Sorry bud but its already gone offshore big time, Romania, Russia,
India all have EDA sites now, read EET to see who is doing the
shipping. I long lost interest in EDA except to create own stuff. The
EDA biz was always less profitable than the customer base so its no
surprise.

regards

johnjakson_usa_com

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