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CPUShack
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 Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject: Mergers and spin-offs |
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More to keep ya busy thenb anything.
How about a list of mergers, aquisitions, and name changes in the CPU industry.
I'll start out.
Atmel (formerally Temic)
SGS mergered with Thomson(France) to form ST
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gshv
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A few more:
Intersil (sold)-> General Electric (sold GE Solid State)-> Harris (spun-off)-> Intersil.
RCA (sold)-> General Electric -> see above.
Fairchild Semiconductor (sold)-> National Semiconductor (spun-off)-> Fairchild Semiconductor.
MOS Technologies (sold)-> Commodore
Signetics (sold)-> Valvo (sold)-> Philips.
GI (sold)-> Microchip
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CPUShack
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funny hoe intersil disappears and reappears.
Cyrix(sold 1997)->National Semi(sold 1999)->VIA
IDT Winchip division (sold 1999)->VIA
Rockwell(name change 2000?)->Conexant
Dallas(sold 2002)->Maxim
Nexgen(sold 1995)->AMD
Add dates if possible
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redbaron
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| Siemens (SAB: Siemens "Aktive Bauelemente" division, spun off) -> Infineon (1999) |
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gshv
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| CPUShack wrote: | | Cyrix(sold 1997)->National Semi(sold 1999)->VIA |
I wanted to add to this:
National Semiconductor (Geode sale 2003)-> AMD
GTE (renamed or sold)-> CMD (California Micro Devices)
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CPUShack
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MMI(sold to) ->AMD
C-Cube->bought by LSI Logic
CHIPS->Bought by Intel
DEC->Bought by Compaq->Merged with HP
GTE->Merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon
Processors sold to CMD as far as I can tell
IIT->Renamed to 8x8
United Technologies bought Mostek in 1980, then sold Mostek to SGS-ATES in 1981.
NCR->Bought by ATT(1991)->Name change to ATT GIS(94)->Spun off as NCR(1997)->Sold hardware division to Solectron(1998)
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