Don't know about the compelling argument as only need point to the simple fact my reply in black & white was to Bravo's post.
Compelling argument gone.
All of this to me is no diff to most other dot joining that goes on.
It's part of what keeps the community going as we get very little directly from the company, for their reasons.
Otherwise, the 1000 eyes may as well stop looking for dots and wait for each qtrly to come round.
That'd be boring
I get your points about the known facts you listed and also another thought could be that we know all 3 are EDA and could be a possibility the job requirement is an understanding of their IP as it could be a totally unrelated company(ies) we work with that already utilise Siemens, Cadence & Synopsys and we need to be able verify their package(s) with Akida.
Therefore, as I posted the other day initially, could be someone like Moschips or similar that is the dot connection.