Mentor's Ponte purchase consolidates DFM technology

There's still a place for independent DFM providers, said Dave Reed, vice president of marketing and business development at Blaze DFM. "The problem of parametric yield loss in advanced nodes provides ample market opportunity to support a pure-play DFM company such as Blaze," he said. "I think market size was the biggest challenge for the physical DFM tool providers such as Ponte."

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