NXP buying Freescale - thoughts?

> For automotive and other safety-critical applications, it is quite 
> important that there are at least two Power vendors.  It's a big market. 
> What has NXP to gain from killing Power?

Since I am in automotive, I can say, that there are at least 3 most popular:
- TI
- Linear
- Intersil

NXP in automotive power? No, not even close.

"Tomas D." <mailsoc@gmial.com> writes:

>> For automotive and other safety-critical applications, it is quite 
>> important that there are at least two Power vendors.  It's a big market. 
>> What has NXP to gain from killing Power?
>
> Since I am in automotive, I can say, that there are at least 3 most popular:
> - TI
> - Linear
> - Intersil
>
> NXP in automotive power? No, not even close.

I am not in automotive, but I still know they are talking about the
Power computer architecture. Not voltage regulators... :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture

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John Devereux

> I am not in automotive, but I still know they are talking about the
> Power computer architecture. Not voltage regulators... :)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Architecture

Ah those software guys... who understand them? ;-)

Tomas D.