[sdiy] ADI to aquire LTC

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Freescale (Now NXP) built DSP’s, MPU’s, MCU’s . Some Analogue ( Power Management), whereas ON got all the Mixed signal, Linear, Bipolar and so forth( about a Billion Dollars revenue) while it was Motorola Semiconductor. I had a great time sampling myself parts for project design when it was all Motorola Semi. The best Radio Shack ever for an Audio / Systems design guy.

But  all things come to an end eventually. I was retired from Motorola/Freescale after 28 years. I bought a good deal of their test gear though when they were closing up labs. 

Still I use a good deal of thru hole parts that I hampstered over the years. Let me know if you have a problem finding stuff.

regards,

Terry
> On Aug 28, 2016, at 7:58 AM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-08-28 12:43 +0200, Ingo Debus wrote:
> 
>> NXP (formerly Philips) recently acquired Freescale (formerly
>> Motorola). So your list is down to six already.
> 
> Wasn't Freescale the digital half of Motorola ? By "Motorola" in
> the list, I was referring to the analogue half, "On semiconductor"
> (another terrible name).
> 
> Didn't know that Microchip made op amps.
> 
> THAT don't as far as I can see.
> 
> Diodes / Zetex have a few dozens of op amps in their catalogue
> but only one in DIP.
> 
> Intersil appear to have no DIP at all.
> 
> Philips^H^H^H^H^H^H^HNXP has stopped making any op amps.
> 
> So the list comes down to
> 
> - Analog Devices + Linear Technology
> - JRC/NJR
> - Maxim
> - Microchip
> - Motorola + Fairchild
> - SGS + Thomson
> - Texas Instruments + Burr-Brown + National semiconductor
> 
> plus, SMT-only,
> 
> - Diodes / Zetex
> - Exar
> - Intersil
> - Rohm
> - SiLabs
> 
> Granted, it's not disastrous yet but isn't the trend worrying ?
> It's intriguing to me that no-one else seems to think much of it.
> 
> -- 
> André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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