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Dialog box shut: Now Microchip is set to gobble up Atmel
- ohyes 11y agoI've got to say, I'm baffled by this. Microchip's offer of less money is somehow the better offer?
- analognoise 11y agoI was also confused by this; it must be some other variable besides the price.
- m4x 11y agoMicrochip offered more actual money. Dialog's offer included less cash and more of their own shares, which have since dropped, while Microchip's offer is mostly cash. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-13/atmel-says-microchip-offer-superior-to-dialog-semiconductor-bid http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-13/atmel-says...
- ank_the_elder 11y ago"I felt a great disturbance in the EE field, as if millions of Atmel vs. Microchip arguments cried out, and were suddenly silenced."
- Gibbon1 11y agoI think Atmel's and to a lessor extent Microchip have a real problem on their hands with the proliferation of low cost low power ARM based microcontrollers. And also getting squeezed on the higher end by Linux capable processors. Where I work when confronted by the need to move away from AVR Mega parts due to cost instead of going the xmega route I punted us over to a low cost ARM micro. That was three years ago.