After decades of growth through acquisition, Cadence Design Systems Inc’s new management has been making the rounds telling the press and Wall Street that it is moving away from a growth-by-acquisition business model and that its R&D group will now become the primary source of tool and product innovations. Maybe the company means that it will stop telling people it has acquired companies—at least that’s what its latest quarterly report indicates.

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