[ekimehtor]

I've been out of this industry for a while now so my thoughts may be a bit dated but it seems to me that the current trend is components suppliers and board manufactures are offering design solutions has it value added resource to there customers. E.g. Element 14 or seeds studio. And down

[ekimehtor]

Sorry for the typos, I'm a quadriplegic using Voice dictation on an Apple iPad and sometimes it gets words wrong [especially homonyms]

[DHaldane]

Seems right - Renesas just acquired Altium after all. Varies a lot by customer.