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Analog Devices in talks to buy Maxim

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Sal Ammoniac:

--- Quote from: daqq on July 13, 2020, 06:11:55 am ---Another one gets assimilated... damn, this is not going to end well.

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Not quite yet. The merger still needs government approval, so there's still a chance it won't happen, but I wouldn't count on that given the current administration.

David Hess:

--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on July 14, 2020, 04:15:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: daqq on July 13, 2020, 06:11:55 am ---Another one gets assimilated... damn, this is not going to end well.
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Not quite yet. The merger still needs government approval, so there's still a chance it won't happen, but I wouldn't count on that given the current administration.
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It is not like there is a comparably sized third competitor to Analog Devices and Texas Instrument anyway.

c64:

--- Quote from: peter-h on July 14, 2020, 01:11:29 pm ---The problem is that Maxim trashed and devalued their own business, through utterly inept management.

Here in the UK, they "serve" from an office in Ireland. Nothing wrong with that (corporation tax is lower there) but a year or two ago they stopped answering the phone or emails.

Yes you read that right. As a customer, you cannot phone Maxim and cannot email Maxim.

You can communicate with this owner of the universe only by support tickets on their website. No discussion possible of anything. They reply to the ticket. Even an RFQ for 10k cannot be communicated on.

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Maybe that's why Analog want to buy them. Here in AU you cannot phone Analog and cannot email Analog. Well, you can e-mail, but don't expect any answer (at least I've never got any)

coppice:

--- Quote from: c64 on July 16, 2020, 04:40:00 am ---Maybe that's why Analog want to buy them. Here in AU you cannot phone Analog and cannot email Analog. Well, you can e-mail, but don't expect any answer (at least I've never got any)

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Its easy for people in many countries to talk to someone from Analog. Maybe you need to move to a country where the electronics industry is still strong enough to keep local representation from the major vendors. Most organisations are very much organised on country by country lines. If you have to call a representative in another country they score no brownie points for helping you, so they probably won't.

DrG:

--- Quote from: DrG on July 13, 2020, 03:13:52 pm ---So many years ago, back in the day so-to-speak, I bought a few shares of Dallas Semiconductor, and ended up owning fewer shares of Maxim. If this goes through, I guess I will end up owning still fewer shares of AD.

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The other day, I received several hundred pages of "Merger Proposal".  I read the cover to learn that in the proposal, it is 0.63 shares AD / share of Maxim. Apparently, my goal is to own only one share of the biggest, baddest and only semiconductor in existence.  :)

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