Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Vitaliy <piclist@maksimov.org> wrote:
>> A visiting FAE mentioned this today:
>>
>> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en546947
>>
>
> This is kind of interesting. Not as interesting as the Atmel buy though
> which unfortunately failed through.
>
> They also bought the ZeroG recently, which is for sure a smart buy.
> http://www.microchip.com/stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&nodeId=2018&mcparam=en546701
>
> Microchip is now getting bigger and bigger. Hopefully they will still
> be as supportive and focus on improving the MCU offerings.

Sanghi once said that Microchip buys "other people's mistakes", referring to 
chip foundries. The rumor is that ZeroG's VC funding dried up and they were 
bought for pennies on the dollar.

Vitaliy 

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