<p dir="ltr">MTG wrote:<br>
> Probably some big holding company.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nope.</p>
<p dir="ltr">They're just a large semiconductor company that sells chips you've never heard of.</p>
<p dir="ltr">>> "Atmel was known to be for sale" … really?</p>
<p dir="ltr">According to the WSJ the CEO is looking to retire.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/dialog-semiconductor-to-buy-atmel-for-4-6-billion-1442755960">http://www.wsj.com/articles/dialog-semiconductor-to-buy-atmel-for-4-6-billion-1442755960</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">And here's today's interesting factlet:</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Neil<br>
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