#659 – Altium…Acquired!

The Amp Hour Electronics Podcast

• 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?)