http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215483/TI_buys_National_Semiconductor_for_6.5_billion

TI, which makes low-power chips, said it would combine its 30,000 analog products and advanced manufacturing capabilities with the offerings of National Semiconductor, which makes analog integrated circuits.

 

Wow, they already glommed Burr-Brown. Wonder when Linear Technologies and Analog Devices get assimilated?

 

What will be the first line of NS to disappear from the market?

Happened much too often as a result of these merges in the past.

 

Really TI is going to be a KING in Semiconductor. they have very aggressive business plan.

 

I hope that TI has the good sense to keep the best of the companies they "ingest", "cuz Nat Semi has been around for a good long time, and has a really decent product.