All start from Texas Instrument...

[M@X77]

I like share with you a my thought, all storical IC company maker are joining, is it not curious?

TI bought National Semiconductor [2011]
NXP bought Freescale (ex Motorola) [2015]
Microchip bought Atmel [2016]
On Semiconductor bought Fairchild [2016]

What do prospect us the future?

ST is still free 

[Gallymimu]

Not sure what your point is, but the semiconductor industry has been consolidating for far longer than 2011.  It's a normal thing as industries mature and price pressures increase.

2000 Burr Brown...,  etc etc etc.

TI acquisitions since 1996
Close Date   Company
23 Sep 2011   National Semiconductor
14 May 2009   Luminary Micro
11 Feb 2009   CICLON Semiconductor
11 Jun 2008   Innovative Design Solutions
13 May 2008   Commergy Technologies
10 Oct 2007   POWERPRECISE Solutions
15 Aug 2007   Integrated Circuit Designs
24 Jan 2006   Chipcon AS
30 Jul 2003   Radia Communications
20 Jun 2002   Condat AG
16 Apr 2002   Ditech echo cancellation software unit
12 Feb 2002   Envoy Networks
04 Sep 2001   Graychip
08 Sep 2000   Alantro Communications
31 Aug 2000   Dot Wireless
25 Aug 2000   Burr-Brown
07 Jul 2000   Phoenix VLSI Technologies design team
16 Mar 2000   Toccata
22 Nov 1999   Power Trends
15 Oct 1999   Unitrode
31 Aug 1999   Telogy Networks
16 Aug 1999   Integrated Sensors Solutions
01 Jul 1999   ATL Research A/S
30 Jun 1999   Libit Signal Processing
04 Feb 1999   Butterfly VLSI
06 Nov 1998   Adaptec high-end disk drive electronics business
27 Feb 1998   Amati Communications Corporation
17 Feb 1998   Spectron Microsystems
06 Jan 1998   GO DSP Corporation
31 Dec 1997   Oasix & Arisix Corporations
02 Jan 1997   Intersect Technologies
09 Jul 1996   Silicon Systems Incorporated
21 May 1996   Tartan

[Old_but_Alive]

whats the betting Microchip buy MIPS now its up for sale

[M@X77]

Not sure what your point is, but the semiconductor industry has been consolidating for far longer than 2011.  It's a normal thing as industries mature ....

ok I want intend the most famous and storical (for me) ...

similar to microchip that bougth atmel... it was a scoop for me...

[WeSo]

And Qualcomm bought NXP recently XD

[metal]

if microchip implements its resources on ARM, it will no longer need MIPS

[Yukine]

Anyone forgot about the ST-Atollic acquisition

[bobcat1]

Hi all
You forget Maxim - ready to buy by one of the giants

Bobi