In the news - On Semiconductor just bought Fairchild:
Hundreds of jobs at stake as rival buys Fairchild for $2.4 billion - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Just the latest in a long line of buyouts and spinoffs for Fairchild:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor
Looks like they made it 20 years in this last stint as an independent company.
Not sure it will mean much other than some products phased out and the inevitible layoffs...
Hundreds of jobs at stake as rival buys Fairchild for $2.4 billion - The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram
Just the latest in a long line of buyouts and spinoffs for Fairchild:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Semiconductor
Looks like they made it 20 years in this last stint as an independent company.
Not sure it will mean much other than some products phased out and the inevitible layoffs...
We bought a Chief 29 at auction and brought it to the proto-media lab at MIT. When we got it there it wouldn't fit into the room so we took some sledge hammers to a fire wall and moved it in. Physical plant came by the next day and just issued a work order to repair the damage.
Those were the good old days. I'd hate to think what would happen now.
Harris had several irons in the fire, one of them being radio transmitters. I think the semiconductor arm evolved out of Radiation Corp., a firm out of Melbourne, FL. In the early 80's, Intersil was busy making discrete jfets and mosfets, as well as some interesting ICs (counter on a chip, anyone?).
I lost track and stopped paying major attention during the daisy chain/wingding/F***fest that happened when GE and RCA semiconductor closed their doors and sorta merged, with frequent name changes to confuse potential customers.
Harris had several irons in the fire, one of them being radio transmitters. I think the semiconductor arm evolved out of Radiation Corp., a firm out of Melbourne, FL. In the early 80's, Intersil was busy making discrete jfets and mosfets, as well as some interesting ICs (counter on a chip, anyone?).
I lost track and stopped paying major attention during the daisy chain/wingding/F***fest that happened when GE and RCA semiconductor closed their doors and sorta merged, with frequent name changes to confuse potential customers.
Qualcomm in talks to buy NXP
The next domino to fall...
NXP Semiconductors explores sale to Qualcomm: sources | Reuters
The next domino to fall...
NXP Semiconductors explores sale to Qualcomm: sources | Reuters
Well this explains something! Two different TO-92 On Semi parts that I use in projects have been discontinued this year. I hadn't figured out yet that they discontinued all the TO-92's! Interesting.
Lol for old farts like me used to through-hole parts, as R.E.M. says "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine".
Qualcom going from fabless to fab is puzzling -- eventually you have to replace all the old fab.
I don't think Qualcom shareholders are going to go for it. Seems to be a pretty substantial alteration of strategy.
As a Mostek employee, yes I remember when (Carrier Air Conditioning + Pratt & Whitney Jet Engines + Sikorsky Helicopters + Otis Elevators + many other subsidiaries) bought Mostek at >40% premium above (#shares * price/share) valuation according to the stock market. Then they sold it off six years later.
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