Texas Instruments to Acquire Nat-Semi for $6.5bn

[JMcEntegart]

Texas Instruments could become the third largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world if its bid to purchase National Semiconductor is successful.

Texas Instruments to Acquire Nat-Semi for $6.5bn : Read more

 

[hunter315]

Thats going to be one hell of a merger, should yield some nice results though, i wonder what TI can do with expanded fabrication potential, should give us some nicer lab toys for a bit less.

 

[dogman_1234]

TI I am not too worried about...for some reason. Heck, they seem decent enough.

 

[Assmar]

Why does the ti-83 cost more now than it did when I bought my first one over a decade ago? A-holes.

 

[samwelaye]

[citation][nom]assmar[/nom]Why does the ti-83 cost more now than it did when I bought my first one over a decade ago? A-holes.[/citation]

So true. and here i was thinking older tech gets cheaper over time...

 

[Guest]

doesn't nat-semi hold an x86 license?
not that it matters for the deal

 

[ceteras]

[citation][nom]rod1975[/nom]doesn't nat-semi hold an x86 license?not that it matters for the deal[/citation]
they used to make Geode, but they sold that to AMD

 

[Wish I Was Wealthy]

Good for Texas Instruments,but bad for competition...Less companies to compete with each other that is...

 

[fayzaan]

But I don't like Texas!

 

[f-14]

Analog chips take signals such as sound, light and termperature

busted 😉

 

[verbalizer]

total BS..

 

[11796pcs]

And I thought all they were good for was making calculators for high-schoolers. I was wrong...

 

[someguynamedmatt]

...whoa.

 

[Assmar]

[citation][nom]samwelaye[/nom]So true. and here i was thinking older tech gets cheaper over time...[/citation]
*Cheaper and smaller, neither of which has happened to those calculators.

 

[afrobacon]

Hopefully they don't turn this market into the overpriced and extremely outdated graphing calculator market.