Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B

Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by trymas on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:44AM (#10256987)

As an Atmel customer, what does it mean to me?

Will nothing change? Will Atmel's (or is it Dialog's ?) micro-controllers will become even more power efficient?

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by qq66 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:51AM (#10257007)

Most likely, nothing. This seems to be a channel-driven acquisition. Dialog wants to put Atmel products in its sales channels and its own products in Atmel's sales channels. And it looks like the product lines don't overlap much, so there shouldn't be significant anticompetitive effects.

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by voltagex_ on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:47AM (#10257000)

Hell, what happens to Arduino?

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by stephen_g on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @03:43AM (#10257184)

Even if they stopped making AVRs together, there are plenty of other (arguably better) MCUs on the market anyway.

At the company I work for, we've replaced all the Atmega chips in our products with the STM32F0 series chips for lower-end requirements and with STM32F4 series for higher end stuff, because they have more grunt and generally have more peripherals, and are similar prices.

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by elsjaako on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @06:05PM (#10262025)

How many MCUs have the same strong, libre toolchain?

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by nascentmind on Thursday September 24, 2015 @05:48AM (#10270713)

Free GCC tool chains are present for the TI MSP430, TI Tiva Series C (Cortex M4) and also TI Hercules (Cortex M3) series. Apart from that I have tried STM32F4 series with GCC tool chains.

I have personally developed Bluetooth stack using the GCC tools for the MSP430 using the CC246x Bluetooth modules and it was a blast.

So you have a lot of options with free tool chains. I personally use only free toolchains on linux. It is the best development setup and you have a lot of options for debugging and tool development.

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by meragrin on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:09AM (#10258005)

Are there any which are easily used breadboard style project?

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by wanderingjew on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:37AM (#10258124)

NXP's (and now Freescale's) LPC1100 are ARM Cortex M0 processors available in DIP packages. IIRC, NXP is the only one making DIP ARMs, but breakout boards exist....

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by hga on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @08:48AM (#10258177)

There are indeed a bunch of them. Here's the ones STM provides: http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532

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Re:Dialog Semiconductor to acquire Atmel for $4.6B by trymas on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @02:55AM (#10257021)

According to user qq66, probably nothing.

Though if Dialog is power management IC company, maybe Atmel's microcontrollers or Atmel based boards will have better power management features and/or be more power efficient?

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