Dialog Semiconductor to buy Atmel

[ianlee74]

…for $4.6B

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/20/us-atmel-m-a-dialog-idUSKCN0RK0J420150920

[suitable1]

Forty-three percent premium!

[Brett]

Marketing guy for the win, s/he managed to say IoT !

[godefroi]

Huh, I’d never even heard of Dialog before.

[ianlee74]

@godefroi

Huh, I’d never even heard of Dialog before.

I was wondering if I was the only one… ???

[Designer]

@ianlee74

@godefroi

Huh, I’d never even heard of Dialog before.

I was wondering if I was the only one… ???

you are not the only one my first reaction was “Dialog Who ?”

[Sprigo]

@ianlee74

@godefroi

Huh, I’d never even heard of Dialog before.

I was wondering if I was the only one… ???

I’d never heard of them either.

[Simon_from_Vilnius]

Reminds me how Porche was trying to buy Volkwagen a few years ago. In the end Volkswagen bought Porche.

[Duke_Nukem]

@Simon from Vilnius

Reminds me how Porche was trying to buy Volkwagen a few years ago. In the end Volkswagen bought Porche.

And now not even Fred’s Corner Ice Shop would want the buy dead albatross know as Volkwagen as did they ever screw up.