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daqq:

--- Quote ---I really don't see the point of these takeovers, I mean less choice/innovation is bad for economies.
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But they are awesome for stockholders. This sort of thing is not meant as good for the customer, but rather good for the company - companies understandably don't like competition. Customers do.

pidcon:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 13, 2020, 07:12:23 am ---Old saying: "Friends don't let friends buy Maxim".

It would be a shame if AD becomes tarred by that percepetion.

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I don't understand the old saying. Could you please elaborate?

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: pidcon on July 13, 2020, 12:35:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 13, 2020, 07:12:23 am ---Old saying: "Friends don't let friends buy Maxim".

It would be a shame if AD becomes tarred by that percepetion.

--- End quote ---

I don't understand the old saying. Could you please elaborate?

--- End quote ---

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22friends+don%27t+let+friends+use+maxim%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22friends+don%27t+let+friends+buy+maxim%22

pidcon:

--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 13, 2020, 12:44:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: pidcon on July 13, 2020, 12:35:58 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 13, 2020, 07:12:23 am ---Old saying: "Friends don't let friends buy Maxim".

It would be a shame if AD becomes tarred by that percepetion.

--- End quote ---

I don't understand the old saying. Could you please elaborate?

--- End quote ---

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22friends+don%27t+let+friends+use+maxim%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22friends+don%27t+let+friends+buy+maxim%22

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

schmitt trigger:
If those were truly mergers, I wouldn't have a problem.
Rather these are acquisitions, for pretty good money. Money which has to be borrowed, saddling debt on (usually) the acquired company.

The end result is that instead of re-investing profits in R&D and equipment, those profits are used to service debt.
"Cost reduction" efforts become the over-riding company focus. People leave or are let go.
The end result is that the acquired company is decimated, and the resulting conglomerate is less than the sum of its previous parts.

Having said this, ADI actually has done a good job with Linear Tech, it has allowed it to maintain some modicum of corporate identity. LTSpice has not been replaced by ADSpice.

Not so with TI, which has completely digested and vanished National. Among others, like Burr-Brown and Unitrode.

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