Re:Fairchild, Fairchildren, and the Family Tree of Silicon V...
by kjs3 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @06:27PM
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> Where were the regulators?
Doing their job? The "Intel buying AMD" analogy is wildly inaccurate. In 2015 (the last full year before the merger) NXP, Renesas, Samsung and ST all had doubt digit percentage of MCU market shares[1]. And ST makes way more than ARMs; the ST8 for example is still very popular. The regulators care if an acquisition reduces competition, and it's pretty clear that an acquisition that wouldn't even break 20% MCU market share wasn't going to impact that.
Doing their job? The "Intel buying AMD" analogy is wildly inaccurate. In 2015 (the last full year before the merger) NXP, Renesas, Samsung and ST all had doubt digit percentage of MCU market shares[1]. And ST makes way more than ARMs; the ST8 for example is still very popular. The regulators care if an acquisition reduces competition, and it's pretty clear that an acquisition that wouldn't even break 20% MCU market share wasn't going to impact that.
[1] http://www.icinsights.com/data/articles/documents/970.pdf