Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal

Re:Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal by tomhoward on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:05AM (#12804759)

For those not aware:

NXP subsidiary Freescale was originally the semiconductor division of Motorola, which developed the first ever commercial high-power transistor, supplied much of the computing technology to the Apollo program, and developed the MC6800 and MC68000 processors that helped spark the modern computing, gaming and consumer electronics industries.

Quite a legacy Qualcomm is aquiring.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal by raverbashing on Thursday October 27, 2016 @09:17AM (#12804826)

Freescale comes from Motorola

NXP was originally Philips

They merged on 2015

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal by jrcii on Thursday October 27, 2016 @10:13AM (#12805232)

It's funny I just learned what Freescale was 3 days ago. I wanted to integrate this system I'm designing with employee presence so I bought and rooted this time clock https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0155NL3MA Inside was a MicroSD card on an ARM board that contained a copy of "Freescale Linux"

[ Parent | on HN ]