"with Microsoft buying Atmel"
Wow, that's news!
Sony has put US$212 million on the table to buy LTE silicon vendor Altair Semiconductor. The Israeli chip developer runs the gamut from 200 Kbps low-power (and low-cost) Internet of Things comms chips up to 450 Mbps chipsets for base stations, mobile Internet and motor vehicle applications. In December, the takeover target …
"2016 has started with a bit of a bang, in terms of merger and acquisition activity, with Microsoft buying Atmel, "
That would be Microchip not Microsoft.
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