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Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by zokier on Thursday January 16, 2020 @07:44AM (#22063945)
> Microchip buying Atmel is almost the equivalent of Intel buying AMD in the embedded microcontroller industry.

Not really. Pre-acquisition the were pretty well matched in terms of mcu market share (Microchip was bigger company due wider portfolio), and even post-acquisition they ended up being on the third place after NXP and Renesans.

http://www.icinsights.com/news/bulletins/NXP-Acquires-Freesc...

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Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V... by segfaultbuserr on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:23AM (#22064242)
Interesting, thanks for pointing out the fact. I was surprised to see the top supplier is NXP, those consolidations have really made NXP a much more powerful company. Back in 2010s, the tops were Renesas, Freescale, Atmel and Microchip [0].

[0] https://www.eetimes.com/despite-challenges-renesas-still-dom...

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