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TI to acquire National Semiconductor
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Yeah. Just got the very long email announcement, less than a half hour ago. Confirmed.
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Hmmm, pretty soon, they can rename the company US Semi. There won't be anyone else.
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Analog Devices and Linear Tech.
Nobody buys Maxim.
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That'll surprise the hell out of Intel. ;-)
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-- _Somebody_ must... http://www.maxim-ic.com/company/
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Xilinx, Altera, and Lattice, for that matter.
Somebody must. They keep bothering me.
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Intel, IRF, Microchip, Avago, AMD, Fairchild, Ixys, Diodes inc., Freescale, ON Semi, Vishay, and so on ...
Somebody must be buying? Wasn't me, for sure :-)
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Don't know how many of those have their own fabs. I suppose the linear and discrete guys do. ...and of course AMD.
They keep calling me trying to get me to take samples. Hey, Larkin! Need some Max samples? ;-)
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Yeah, I could use some MAX9690s.
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I always laugh how you guys can't get parts. Maxim sells countless millions of parts. However, if you latch onto some low volume part, good luck. The place is run like a hardware store, not a semi. We're out of metric screws? Shit, see if they will buy UTS screws?
Other than the CTO, I can't say much favorable about that executive team. TI would do itself a favor buying Maxim and cleaning house of most management and most of the design centers. The trouble is from the outside, they don't know where the bodies are buried and who is the dead wood. However when I read those posts on Yahoo from the insiders (most of whom I don't know), I laugh because these people hired long after I've left quickly figure out who the clowns are. Dilbert is reality.
I think TI bit off way more than it can chew with National. The place hasn't been good for decades. National stayed afloat selling off all that prime industrial land they owned in the valley.
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including answers to frequently asked questions and video messages from TI leaders regarding the acquisition. Somewhere around the late 70's, there was a rumor going around in Fairchild that Honeywell was going to acquire it; the new name to be "Fairwell HoneyChild".
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ON?
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I thought Samsung owned Fairchild?
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I can only tell you that some of my clients have had it with that sort of "logistics". But no complaint, Maxim brought me a few assignments, designing their chips out :-8
Probably the only sure thing would be what the Romans called "tabula rasa" at the top level. Clean slate. Yeah, it'll unfortunately hit some good guys but ...
The P/E looked very low, 10 or so? Dang, should have bought National stock :-)
$25/share looks like a steep premium but I bet they did their due diligence on that.
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Looks like that was a rumor back 13+ years ago, but actually Fairchild (an independent company) bought a little bit of Samsung.
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Unobtanium. Who woulda guessed.
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I suspect whatever business you got designing out Maxim didn't dent their bottom line. A lot of the low volume stuff is not priced accordingly. You probably did Maxim a favor.
I never bought their throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks method of product planning. However many of the "business managers" were pretty clueless, so their really couldn't focus on what to make since they didn't understand the products well enough to make such decisions. What would happen is one of the parts would click and become the volume unit, and half a dozen similar products would languish.
While much of who is running the company is sub-par (who the f*ck would keep a CEO that let the company go to pink sheets), plenty of the crap has moved on or retired. [Well, they were mentally retired, but now actually retired.] Since I don't need the lawsuit, I won't name names, but easily the stupidest person I ever ran into in the chip biz has a well funded start-up. When the company fails, I plan on writing the venture capitalists and point out that they could have called anyone who worked with this fool and got the line "You've got to be kidding me."
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That's exactly the thinking that got Maxim the reputation it has. They are trying to change, or at least say they are, but they're pushing a rope.
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The first one I designed out was in the mid-90s, a switcher chip. It worked nicely but they could not deliver production quantities. 4k/mo, AFAIK still in production. So let's see, assuming they make a buck per chip that would be roughly 3/4 million by now. That was only one out of many examples, I've stopped counting. Also, I wasn't the only one, not by a longshot.
My take is they don't even know what they've been missing out on. The other side of the coin is that there are people who have never considered any of their chips in their designs, for decades. Here's lookin' at one :-)
Thing is, engineers in the outside world don't buy it either. Or maybe once.
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