[TriEmbed] Microchip to buy Atmel...

[Jon Wolfe]

This isn't the first time Microchip and Atmel agreed to merge. It ended up falling through a few years ago.
Part of me hopes it falls through again. Atmel as a company, seems to be a lot more hobbyist and small business friendly. (MC wants $1000 to get gcc '-O2' optimizations for their PIC compiler,  c'mon!) If the alternative is Atmel going belly up, then i suppose this is a good thing.






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From: John Vaughters via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> 
Date: 1/22/2016  8:15 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Michael Wayne <michael.wayne at georgewaynellc.com>, Rodney Radford <ncgadgetry at gmail.com> 
Cc: Triangle Amateur Robotics <trianglerobotics at yahoogroups.com>, TriEmbed Discussion <triembed at triembed.org> 
Subject: Re: [TriEmbed] Microchip to buy Atmel... 

My guess is not much will change for at least a year while they decide how to merge, then factories close and processes merge over the next 1-2 yrs or so. That is when you will see how this plays out. There may be a change in low volume chips, but I doubt the high volume chips need to worry much. Quality in a changing process or plant move is always subject to possible poor batches until they get it worked out.
All in all this is just a typical move in a poor economy where companies are merging like crazy right now. Layoffs have started and will continue as the merged companies combine.  

    On Friday, January 22, 2016 2:21 AM, Michael Wayne via TriEmbed <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
  

 Thought Atmel already got bought out...
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0RK0J420150920
On Jan 22, 2016 1:32 AM, "Rodney Radford via TriEmbed" <triembed at triembed.org> wrote:
Two worlds collide...

http://www.electronics-lab.com/microchip-to-buy-atmel-for-nearly-3-6-billion/

I hope that does not mean the death of Atmel, as I have always thought their architecture was superior to Microchip - and that is in addition to hating the Microchip assembly mnemonics.

Only time will tell what this means for both product lines... and possibly Arduino.



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