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Focuses on the deeper relationship between designers and manufacturing partners to battle escalating chip design costs. Information that electronic-design-automation (EDA) tool suppliers are forming closer relationships with foundries; Integration of large semiconductor companies; Disaggregation of the typical semiconductor supplier triggered the emergence of independent EDA tool vendors like Cadence Design Systems Inc., Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys; Creation of wafer foundries.