[sdiy] ADI to aquire LTC

[Kylee Kennedy]

I always thought they switched to Agilant because they could get the NYSE
symbol "A"
Way easier for stock buyers to remember.
who doesnt want to be first listed in alphabetical order?

Kylee

On Sunday, August 28, 2016, <thx1138 at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:;>> 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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