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: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @04:21PM (2 children)
Sweet!!! I absolutely love looking at signal processing discrete integrated circuits and other electrical schematics along with mostly naked hot female babes in Maxim.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:22PM
Maxim is really missing out on the teledildonics market. Both of the Maxims.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 14 2020, @08:01PM
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(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:15PM
Fake money!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 14 2020, @06:31PM (3 children)
Its interesting that both companies are companies that primarily acquire other companies.
A family tree of all the companies Analog Devices own would be huge.
(Score: 2) by corey on Tuesday July 14 2020, @10:37PM (2 children)
Yeah. Next up, NXP (or Broadcom) buys Analog.
(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.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Tuesday July 14 2020, @09:14PM (3 children)
So one company that makes semi obscure products buys out their biggest competitor. I fail to see how this could be a problem, could someone clue me in?
/ says the regulators
// who earned their bones buying companies, eviscerating them, and selling the husks to idiots on NASDAQ
/// not that I'm jaded or anything
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday July 15 2020, @02:12AM (2 children)
Both companies are very familiar to me.
There are still multiple companies who make fine analog microcircuits. They may be similar, but vary on what was the tradeoff for what.
You might be surprised how many opamps I choose from, yet each has its reasons why I chose That one.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by Rich on Wednesday July 15 2020, @05:21PM (1 child)
Pray your beancounters never find out that the LM324 is always cheaper.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 17 2020, @07:21AM
I use a lot of LM324.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]