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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: janoc on September 22, 2015, 07:49:42 pm

Title: Dialog bought out Atmel
Post by: janoc on September 22, 2015, 07:49:42 pm

http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/content/dialog-semiconductor-acquire-atmel-46-billion (http://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/content/dialog-semiconductor-acquire-atmel-46-billion)

EDIT: Just had this show up in the Microcontroller & FPGA forum too. D'oh :( Please ignore this post.

Title: Re: Dialog bought out Atmel
Post by: tom66 on September 23, 2015, 08:51:10 am

Wow... $4.6bn seems so cheap for Atmel. I always thought the company was worth a lot more.
Microchip has a $10bn market cap...

Title: Re: Dialog bought out Atmel
Post by: ajb on September 23, 2015, 05:23:56 pm

Quote from: tom66 on September 23, 2015, 08:51:10 am

Wow... $4.6bn seems so cheap for Atmel. I always thought the company was worth a lot more.
Microchip has a $10bn market cap...

Microchip has a much broader portfolio with power and mixed-signal parts.  Atmel has memory and a smattering of other things, but on the whole the size difference isn't too surprising.

Title: Re: Dialog bought out Atmel
Post by: mariush on September 23, 2015, 06:36:19 pm

There's a thread with 4 pages already here, no point making so many : https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/dialog-buys-atmel/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/microcontrollers/dialog-buys-atmel/)

Title: Re: Dialog bought out Atmel
Post by: janoc on September 24, 2015, 12:04:30 am

Yeah, my bad. I did actually look for whether there is a new thread on this already before posting, but it has showed up only after I have opened mine for some silly reason.

Guys, please move the discussion about Atmel/Dialog to the other forum.