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| Echo88:
How can those companies proclaim that chinese competition is the reason for mergers when China continues to strive for independence in electronic components either way? |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: Echo88 on July 13, 2020, 07:14:07 pm ---How can those companies proclaim that chinese competition is the reason for mergers when China continues to strive for independence in electronic components either way? --- End quote --- The Chinese are good and getting better - and they have scale. So to compete against Chinese companies requires not only being good, but also requires economies of scale. Either that, or be a "boutique shop" with specialised products of some kind. |
| 16bitanalogue:
--- Quote from: grouchobyte on July 13, 2020, 06:26:42 pm ---https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maxim-intg-m-a-analog-devices/chipmaker-analog-devices-to-buy-rival-maxim-for-about-21-billion-idUSKCN24E14B 21 billion? Finally I can consider Maxim again after mothballing them for over 3 decades. I have been lobbying TI, LT and ADI to buy the f***king turd for decades. Maxim royally pissed me off in 1991 and I swore I would never consider them ever again,.... until now :clap: Bob --- End quote --- To be fair, Maxim has never been a company to pay attention to the smaller companies, makers, or hobbyists. Maxim focuses on their strategic partners like Apple, Samsung, Amazon, etc. So the undercurrent of "Friends don't let friends by Maxim" has never been a concern for the company because there has never been a desire to play in the mass market. Contrast this to TI, especially over the last 15 years, has had a strategy of "growing the tail" and going after the mass market and doing a pretty damn good job at it. |
| grouchobyte:
--- Quote from: 16bitanalogue on July 13, 2020, 07:46:04 pm --- --- Quote from: grouchobyte on July 13, 2020, 06:26:42 pm ---https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maxim-intg-m-a-analog-devices/chipmaker-analog-devices-to-buy-rival-maxim-for-about-21-billion-idUSKCN24E14B 21 billion? Finally I can consider Maxim again after mothballing them for over 3 decades. I have been lobbying TI, LT and ADI to buy the f***king turd for decades. Maxim royally pissed me off in 1991 and I swore I would never consider them ever again,.... until now :clap: Bob --- End quote --- To be fair, Maxim has never been a company to pay attention to the smaller companies, makers, or hobbyists. Maxim focuses on their strategic partners like Apple, Samsung, Amazon, etc. So the undercurrent of "Friends don't let friends by Maxim" has never been a concern for the company because there has never been a desire to play in the mass market. Contrast this to TI, especially over the last 15 years, has had a strategy of "growing the tail" and going after the mass market and doing a pretty damn good job at it. --- End quote --- Correct. I agree. Maxim never gave a s**t about my business and never gave them a second look even though their parts were ideal in my designs. So for 30 plus years they never saw the light of day in my world and when I explained the rationale to my employer and my clients....Most were totally okay with my decisions simply because they themselves had been burned by Maxim’s selfish policies or as they called it “ “strategy” or market “focus” So now, because of market pressure ADI are acquiring Maxim. I applaud that because now I can consider them as a complement to the other global players, since many of their parts are an outstanding value to me now clearly without the maxim bullsh*t factor.....like why are the MOQ and deliveries ridiculous, etc |
| E-Design:
--- Quote from: grouchobyte on July 13, 2020, 08:09:45 pm --- --- Quote from: 16bitanalogue on July 13, 2020, 07:46:04 pm --- --- Quote from: grouchobyte on July 13, 2020, 06:26:42 pm ---https://www.reuters.com/article/us-maxim-intg-m-a-analog-devices/chipmaker-analog-devices-to-buy-rival-maxim-for-about-21-billion-idUSKCN24E14B 21 billion? Finally I can consider Maxim again after mothballing them for over 3 decades. I have been lobbying TI, LT and ADI to buy the f***king turd for decades. Maxim royally pissed me off in 1991 and I swore I would never consider them ever again,.... until now :clap: Bob --- End quote --- To be fair, Maxim has never been a company to pay attention to the smaller companies, makers, or hobbyists. Maxim focuses on their strategic partners like Apple, Samsung, Amazon, etc. So the undercurrent of "Friends don't let friends by Maxim" has never been a concern for the company because there has never been a desire to play in the mass market. Contrast this to TI, especially over the last 15 years, has had a strategy of "growing the tail" and going after the mass market and doing a pretty damn good job at it. --- End quote --- Correct. I agree. Maxim never gave a s**t about my business and never gave them a second look even though their parts were ideal in my designs. So for 30 plus years they never saw the light of day in my world and when I explained the rationale to my employer and my clients....Most were totally okay with my decisions simply because they themselves had been burned by Maxim’s selfish policies or as they called it “ “strategy” or market “focus” So now, because of market pressure ADI are acquiring Maxim. I applaud that because now I can consider them as a complement to the other global players, since many of their parts are an outstanding value to me now clearly without the maxim bullsh*t factor.....like why are the MOQ and deliveries ridiculous, etc --- End quote --- Agreed.. Ideally, ADI buys them up and takes their portfolio as their own including ADI/LT generous policies of very rarely obsoleting a device. On the other hand, if ADI adopts Maxims obsolescence policy - the world will end. :( |
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