ARGO GRAPHICS Inc. agreed to acquire Wide Soft Design Co., Ltd.

ARGO GRAPHICS Inc. is a Japan-based company engaged in the product lifecycle management (PLM) business and electronic design automation (EDA) business. The PLM segment consists of PLM solution business, system building support business and hardware maintenance and other business. The PLM solution business is engaged in the provision of PLM solutions, which target at the productivity improvement in manufacturing processes. The system building support business provides system building support services for the servers and personal computer (PC) clusters of manufacturers. The hardware maintenance (HM) and other business maintains the machines provided by the PLM solution and the system building support businesses. The EDA segment sells computer aided design (CAD) systems for electronic components and micro fabrication, including large scale integrated circuits, liquid crystal displays and other flat panel displays (FPD), magnetic head and micro machine.