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Title: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: snowman040 on September 16, 2006, 02:11:32 PM

Inquirer posted today that Freescale Semiconductor (formerly part of Motorola) is in process of being sold for 17.6 BILLION USD.


Here is original story: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34430
Also more at Red Herring (http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=18597&hed=Freescale%3A+Sold+for+%2417.6B§or=Industries&subsector=Computing)

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: dammy on September 16, 2006, 02:23:09 PM

Guess we will see if they push Freescale into the desktop or further into the embedded market.

Dammy

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: leirbag28 on September 16, 2006, 04:23:26 PM

This is Bad news.................now for sure the Amiga will never have 68000 processors again


X86 is the only ruote to go. I see PPC as dead

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: AJCopland on September 16, 2006, 05:03:29 PM

what on earth are you on about  :lol:

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: Quixote on September 17, 2006, 08:22:04 AM

;-) Heh.  Leirbag28, sir, I seriously doubt that anyone would purchase a chip manufacturing company for the material assets alone.  Whoever bought them out also purchased the contracts and IP of Freescale, and will most likely continue making the existing product line.

Of course, there'll likely be some changes, but as long as the 68000 series is profitable, they'll still be made....

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: stone on September 17, 2006, 10:30:40 AM

the amiga wont ever have a 680x0 cpu again under any curcumstances. powerpc isnt in any way related to the 680x0 family.

and its ibm that develops powerpc technology and cpus, not freescale who only produce a few embedded versions, so how you figure that the sale of freescale can affect the future of powerpc is beyond me.

how can ppc be dead when its being developed and selling bettre than it ever has?

/stone

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: dammy on September 17, 2006, 11:51:53 AM

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Whoever bought them out also purchased the contracts and IP of Freescale, and will most likely continue making the existing product line.

That depends, the individual IP assets maybe worth far more then the entire company is.  They could very likely just take a chainsaw to the corporation and sell off pieces and make a tidy sum of profit within 18 months.  Time will tell.

Dammy

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: bloodline on September 17, 2006, 03:38:56 PM

Freescale have a single product that makes them valuble... MRAM... There's no money in the CPU market for Freescale.

Title: Re: Freescale Semiconductor sold
Post by: Waccoon on September 18, 2006, 12:43:43 AM

@Dammy:  That happend to the company at which my dad worked... three times.

Billion-dollar buyouts/mergers always seem to spell bad news.