Analog Devices To Buy Maxim Integrated
Today Analog Devices has announced that it will be acquiring Maxim Integrated in a transaction estimated at $21bn. The combined company value is said to end up being valued at $68bn, creating a significant player in the analog IC market.
Analog Devices are most popularly known by their signal processing discrete ICs, such as amplifiers, ADCs and DACs, although their product portfolio extends to a very wide range of other designs.
Maxim Integrated is most popularly known by their power management ICs as well as sensors. For example, they have been the main battery PMIC (And until recent years, a lot of other phone-centric PMICs) provider for Samsung mobile devices for the better part of the last decade.
Also at EE Times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:00AM (1 child)
TI buys AD, kills off most of the product lines and opens the way for China to dominate the analog IC market.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday July 15 2020, @01:01PM
Eventually there's only gonna be like 2 or 3 mfgrs left in the world, making everything, and then it'll hit the numerous distributors.
Kinda like the consumer retail apocalypse we have now where there's ten stores at the mall all trying to resell the same chinese factory stuff.