EDA industry down 2% in Q3.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. -- The Electronic Design Automation Consortium's Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced that total Q3 revenue, including Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP), was $953 million, a 2% decrease from Q3 2003. Revenue for PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. and MCM (MultiChip Module or MicroChip Module) A chip package that contains several bare chips mounted close together on a substrate (base) of some kind. Layout totaled $81 million in Q3 2004, 1% less than in the year-ago quarter. EDA's largest tool category, Computer-Aided Engineering See CAE. Computer-aided engineering Any use of computer software to solve engineering problems. With the improvement of graphics displays, engineering workstations, and graphics standards, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has come to mean the computer (CAE (1) (Computer-Aided Engineering) Software that analyzes designs which have been created in the computer or that have been created elsewhere and entered into the computer. ), generated revenue of $453 million in Q3 2004, no change from the same period in 2003. IC Physical Design & Verification revenue at $272 million was down 9% from $298 million in the same period last year. Services revenue at $66 million showed a 5% increase over the same quarter last year. North America revenues declined by 9% to $472 million, while Europe revenues of $192 million showed a 4% rise, and Japan at $183 million was also up 4%. Double-digit growth continued in the rest of the world, which showed total revenues of $107 million, up 11%from Q3 2003. |
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