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<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/japanese-chipmaker-renesas-buy-australian-software-firm-altium-59-bln-2024-02-14/">Renesas buying Altium</a></li>
<li><a href="https://octopart.com/pulse/p/octopart-is-joining-altium-2">Altium bought Octopart in 2017</a></li>
<li><a href="https://resources.altium.com/tasking">Tasking debugger</a></li>
<li>Cloud focus after reorg</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altium_Designer">History of Protel / Altium</a> &#8211; started in 1985 by Nick Martin</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal">Turbo Pascal</a></li>
<li>CAD tool for windows in 90s</li>
<li>protel99</li>
<li><a href="https://www.edn.com/eeek-altium-is-going-to-buy-morfik/">Altium Buys Morfik in 2010</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.eevblog.com/forum/altium/nick-martin-booted-out-as-altium-ceo/">Nick booted out </a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/altium-soars-to-a-record-high-after-booming-half-year-result-20190219-p50ys9.html">After the reorg, the stock steadily grew</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.renesas.com/us/en/video/zoom-webinar-regarding-acquisition-altium-limited-february-15-2024">You can watch the Renesas/Altium announcement on Zoom </a></li>
<li><a href="https://cdn-api.markitdigital.com/apiman-gateway/ASX/asx-research/1.0/file/2924-02773061-2A1505143">There is also a slide deck available</a></li>
<li><a href="https://archive.md/M1bL6">Dave linked an article from the financial press in Austrailia</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.zuken.com/us/">Zuken</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.eejournal.com/article/altera-the-once-and-future-fpga-supplier-part-2/">Altera is apparently spinning back out</a></li>
<li><a href="https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-99-impavid-ideopraxist-insider/">Steve Liebsen on The Amp Hour</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intels-chips-act-award-package-exceeds-dollar10-billion-payout-expected-within-two-weeks-report">Intel is getting a $10B chunk of the CHIPS act money</a></li>
<li><a href="https://theamphour.com/632-steve-sanghi-microchip-ceo-for-31-years/">Steve Sanghi (Microchip) discussed the act when he was on the show</a></li>
<li>Synergy flavored milk</li>
<li>Other properties we forgot were part of Altium:
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<li>Circuit Studio</li>
<li>Upverter (<a href="https://theamphour.com/the-amp-hour-163-ramiform-reciprocity-raconteurs/">formerly on the show!</a>)</li>
<li>Gumstix</li>
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<li>Autotrax &#8211; Taylor&#8217;s version (<a href="https://dexpcb.com/">DEX PCB</a> just&#8230;took the name?)</li>
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#660 – My Toothbrush Is Broadcasting

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