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I'm not sure if Nat'l Semi died or not. They became a division of TI which is currently trading near its all-time-greatest valuation. TI is one of the most va
by seminatl 7y ago
I'm not sure if Nat'l Semi died or not. They became a division of TI which is currently trading near its all-time-greatest valuation. TI is one of the most valuable companies on earth. Before the acquisition National had healthy profits.
- dbcurtis 7y agoThe Nat Semi & TI merger is an interesting case. They both had huge numbers of parts in the same categories, but little actual overlap in actual part catalogs. They complemented each other nicely in terms feature-space coverage. At the same time, building a modern semiconductor fab is so capital intensive that only huge companies can do it. So the economics of that merger were uncommonly attractive.