Hello,

Read this page:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wi...-nxp-buy-freescale-semiconductor-12b-29314394

Bertus

 

Wow!

That is as earth shattering as TI buying out National Semiconductor!

 

This rises the same question every time it happens: what would be the lines discountinued by the buyers? Sooner or later, it happens.

 

Industry consolidation marches on.
http://www.nxp.com/news/press-releases/2015/03/nxp-and-freescale-announce-40-billion-merger.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/03/02/private-equity-nxp-freescale-semiconductor/

 

Industry consolidation marches on.
http://www.nxp.com/news/press-releases/2015/03/nxp-and-freescale-announce-40-billion-merger.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2015/03/02/private-equity-nxp-freescale-semiconductor/

Getting closer to the Elite 8 of this futuristic ad from Parks and Recreation final episode...

 

In the heyday of M&A activity we heard and repeated the following apocryphal joke:

"The stock market crashed today when the last corporation in America failed in a hostile takeover of itself."