On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Charles Craft wro= te: > http://www.ti.com/ww/en/acquire/index.shtml > > TI to acquire National Semiconductor > > Combination to strengthen analog portfolio and customer support > > Texas Instruments has signed a definitive agreement to purchase National > Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction of about $6.5 billion. This > merger will unite two industry leaders who have a common commitment to > solving your analog needs. Both companies will operate independently > pending close of the acquisition which is expected to take six to nine > months. > > This deal will go through since there are other strong analog player out there like Analog Device, Maxim and Linear Tech. As for strengthen of the analog portfolio, that is sure. But for customer support, hopefully it will not get worse. Right now we get pretty good support from both TI and National Semi, both are good at power and both are trying to attack the high performance analog side where ADI, Maxim and Linear are very strong, TI being more successful there and has quite some good parts. National has just started some interesting work like the following AFE. http://www.national.com/pf/LM/LMP90100.html#Overview --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .