Intel Allowed to Buy Digital Signal Processor Co.

vivekb writes "C|Net reports that the federal anti-trust review period for Intel's bid to buy DSP Communications expired yesterday. This gives clearance for Intel's $1.6 billion offer to proceed. Watch for Intel DSPs to arrive shortly." Texas Instruments has dominated the market for digital signal processor chips for years. It looks like this is about to change big-time.

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Why...

[punkass]

...do big companies like Intel feel they have something to offer in neighboring markerts? Isn't there such a thing as effeciency due to being small and fast? Big companies that do this don't necessarily make a better product, they merely weed out competitors more easily. Microsoft, Worldcom, IBM, Sun...it seems like when they buy shit, they either kill in that markert by their sheer size, or the product flops because they can't keep up with smaller, specialized shops.

Argh, enough with the mergers already...one-stop shopping is cool for supermarkert, but that's about it...

Article on DSP Comm and its founder - Davidi Gilo

[Gino]

Forbes recently featured this article about DSP communications and its founder Davidi Gilo. DSP Communications is on Forbes' list of 300 most promising (small) global companies.

A nice read with some background on the company, how it came to be and noting the big breakthrough in 1994 - capturing a large piece of the digital cellular phone market in Japan. Their biggest focus is now on the American cellular market with US contracts that should contribute more than 24% of their estimated revenue for 1999.

...by the pricking of my thumbs,

Re:Bad timing at Intel

[NovaX]

The CPU market for Intel is not really that threatened by AMD. Even if the Athlon is better by all accounts, Intel wont loose enough market share to really hurt them. AMD generally cannot fill orders, does not have a trusted brand name, and unlike Intel is not a standard choice (or the standard) for resellers.

So the giant is loosing some money as those 'in the know' buy from its competitors. How many people are buying machines and don't know, or don't care? Intel's still the king, and that wont change on a dime. Considering their exploits of the P6 architecture, they've spent all of their R&D on a new design, and hopefully a P7 design too. What will really hurt Intel is if both, especially IA-64, don't float well on the market and leave IBM, Motorola, Sun, Compaq, and AMD to eat Intel's market share.

Intel expaning outward is a good move. Look at Soney and IBM. If one section looses market, they're so widespread that most likely another will gain, and profits will even out. And that's still profits, so lifes good. If IBM kills the PowerPC line, they have hard drives, software, etc. all gaining in market share. So lifes good.