NXP next as TI resets market values?
Peter Clarke, EETimes
4/6/2011 7:47 AM EDT
LONDON – Texas Instruments' proposed acquisition of National Semiconductor Corp. for $6.5 billion and at an 80 percent premium from where the stock was trading, must be setting some minds racing.
To offer to pay such a premium surely suggests that another party was nibbling at National Semiconductor and the move seems likely to reset the market's perception of the value of analog semiconductor activity. Meanwhile there are many that believe further consolidation in the semiconductor industry is overdue and that TI may have broken a long-jam that was holding back pent-up appetite.
NXP Semiconductors BV, the European chipmaker spun off from Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV by a private equity buy out in 2006, is one company that could now be caught up in the mix of interested consolidators, interested divestors and a revaluation of analog and mixed-signal activity.
E-mail This Article | Printer-Friendly Page |
Related News
- Has the electronics market bottomed out?
- GPU Market Headed for a Fall?
- Thread Group Opens Testing to Members as ARM, NXP and Silicon Labs Bring First Conforming Stacks to Market
- IPextreme Joins Forces With NXP to Bring Silicon Proven USB Technology to Market
- NXP Secure Element Adopted by Samsung Galaxy S6 in World's Largest Smartphone Market
Breaking News
- Packetcraft Delivers Bluetooth Software Enabling Channel Sounding to Early Access Licensees
- QuickLogic Releases Aurora 2.6 with Expanded Operating System Support and Up to 15% Faster Performance
- Rapid Silicon Introduces Revolutionary Rapid eFPGA Configurator for Hassle Free Embedded FPGA Evaluation
- Silvaco Announces Launch of Initial Public Offering
- TSMC's A16 Process Moves Goalposts in Tech-Leadership Game