[sdiy] Dialog buys Atmel

[Michael Zacherl]

On 22.Sep 2015, at 17:03 , Neil Johnson <neil.johnson71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> "Atmel was known to be for sale" … really?
> 
> According to the WSJ the CEO is looking to retire.
> 
> http://www.wsj.com/articles/dialog-semiconductor-to-buy-atmel-for-4-6-billion-1442755960

alas no public access to this article. But your word is good enough for me. ;)

> And here's today's interesting factlet:
> 
> Jalal Bagherli, the CEO of Dialog, was the CEO of Alphamosaic before it was bought by Broadcom, which developed the BCM2835, which was the chip that started the Raspberry Pi project.

while Broadcom is currently being incorporated into Avago … 
Which was a much larger fish to swallow than LSI in 2013.

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