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Re:Chip Makers Will Merge in Deal Worth $11.8B by ghubbard on Monday March 02, 2015 @02:41AM (#9130769)
tldr; NXP Semiconductors is buying Freescale Semiconductor.
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Re:Chip Makers Will Merge in Deal Worth $11.8B by huxley on Monday March 02, 2015 @11:03AM (#9132434)
And for historical context, Freescale Semiconductor is the spinoff of the original Motorola's Semiconductor Products Division, that was a transistor and semiconductor pioneer as well as building the 680x0 and several of the PowerPC processors for the Apple Macintosh back in the day.
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