he> Synopsys is not in the habit of providing free lunches.

can you provide a source?

otherwise, this tack has zero basis in fact.

it could just as easily be said that Synopsys is paying PTK for the rights to keep Cadence and Mentor off the field.

posting the contract itself, or some preview of the note about the disbursement to Synopsys in the upcoming PTK Q3 financials, which might provide suitably concrete information.

else, it would be prudent to couch the argument as speculation ... or drop it entirely.

with the information available, there's no mention that money flowed in one direction or the other, or that it's flowed between the parties at all.

let's not descend to baseless scare-mongering.

thanks.

R.