AMD → Enosemi (May 2025)
Defensive acquisition because Nvidia/Marvell were ahead on photonic switch. Same pattern: substrate-layer IP that locks competitors out of the next-gen package. Genesis owns the EDA-adjacent workflow lock on glass substrates.
Marvell → Celestial AI (Dec 2025)
Up to $5.5B PRE-REVENUE. Glass substrate is the integration substrate. Marvell didn’t wait for Celestial to build a public moat — neither will Nvidia/AMD wait for ChipletOS.
GlobalFoundries → AMF (Nov 2025)
Same defensive pattern. Without ChipletOS, AMD’s Instinct MI400+ packaging team integrates 3-5 separate point tools to cover Cadence Sigrity / Synopsys SiP / Ansys HFSS / Keysight ADS / Siemens HyperLynx. With ChipletOS = single workflow lock across all 5.
AGI → Ansys (2020)
$700M, ~10× rev, workflow lock-in premium. The same posture Genesis ships: cross-EDA workflow lock + Genesis-side cert + customer-side native signoff per per-vendor _NATIVE_VALIDATION_DEFERRED.md doc.