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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.13



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To: "xtophe@simplex.com" (xtophe@simplex.com)
Subject: FW: FW: Request for Consent for use of Research data
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:37:45-0500
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Dear Christophe:

The following quotes have been approved for usage in the Simplex Solutions SEC
filing. Please note the appropriate sourcing:

Quote #1:

Of this [ASIC/SoC] total market in North America, according to Dataquest, the
percentage of chips manufactured at or below 0.18 micron will grow from less
than 10% of all chips manufactured in 1999 to over 85% of all chips
manufactured in 2004.

Gartner Dataquest, Table 6-3: "Marching Toward System-Level Integration
Update". Brian Lewis. October 2000.

Quote #2:

According to Dataquest, 35% of integrated circuits manufactures in 2000 will
incorporate geometries at or below 0.18 micron, with continuing adoption
expected to grow to 85% by 2004. Dataquest also reports that in 1999, less than
3% of the engineers were doing designs with more than 10 million transistors,
whereas it expects to see, by early 2002, the first introduction of 0.10 micron
products that will house devices up to 600 million transistors (100 million
gates).

Gartner Dataquest, Table 6-3 & Figure 6-7: "Marching Toward System-Level
Integration Update". Brian Lewis. October 2000.

Regards and thank you,

Pamela A. Miranda
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