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EDN Europe's Editor Graham Prophet posts a selection of comments and insights prompted by the many items of industry news and rumour that cross the editorial desk or are gathered on his frequent travels to interviews, press conferences and events around Europe - and further afield - and somehow never find their way to the magazine or the web site, recovering some of the information otherwise lost in the noise level...

Friday, May 15, 2009

TI swallows Luminary

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More consolidation in the microcontroller business; hard on the heels of the announcement of the forthcoming marriage of Renesas and NEC, we have TI snapping up Luminary Micro. No surprise to see a venture such as Luminary being bought; something of a surprise, perhaps, to see it being bought at a relatively early stage in its development.
Not for the first time, it shows that if you have the resources, then hard times offer opportunities as well as problems. From the design point of view, we now have a formidable array of microcontroller companies offering Cortex-M3-based product and, if ARM’s CMSIS interface-standard initiative delivers on its promises, the prospect of a very hotly-contested market space – and one in which the ever-increasing tech-support role of the distribution companies could play a significant part.
I have, however, to mention the encounter I had with a couple of TI staff members on Wednesday of this week (no names....). It may be that they genuinely knew nothing of this impending deal: on the other hand, if they did, then the adept manner in which they deflected my, “Got any interesting announcements coming up in the near future?” was worthy of an Oscar.

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