I am not familiar with all the steps a company has to follow to acquire
another one, but Atmel may be just calling for a better price. It will be
interesting to see how this negotiation ends.

2008/11/12, Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>:
>
> > That is one of the things that may change for the better if Microchip
> ends
> > up owning Atmel.
>
> It seems it will not happen:
>
> http://www.atmel.com/dyn/corporate/view_detail.asp?ref=&FileName=AtmelBoardofDirectorsResponse_10_29.html&SEC_NAME=
>
> Tamas
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Ariel Rocholl <arocholl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2008/11/12, John Chung <kravnus@yahoo.com>:
> > >
> > > On free samples, AVR plays hard ball. Requested free MCU and I don get
> > any!
> > > Still I do like them when using the C language.
> > >
> > > John
> >
> >
> > That is one of the things that may change for the better if Microchip
> ends
> > up owning Atmel.
> >
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