MENT seen as takeover target, according to Pacific Crest Securities

[Daniel Payne]

Chip industry: $65 billion in deals already this year; who's next? | OregonLive.com

Interesting article this afternoon in the Oregonian by Mike Rogoway on some Oregon companies ripe for a sale or takeover target:

• Nanometrics
• Silicon Laboratories
• Audience
• Marvell Technology
• Atmel
• Silicon Motion Technology
• InvenSense
• Cavium
• Mentor Graphics

 

[Daniel Nenni]

Since when?

"And Lattice Semiconductor – which, like Avago, makes programmable computer chips –"

Professional journalism.........

And who is going to buy Mentor? I will be doing a fireside chat with Mentor CEO Wally Rhines at DAC next week, I will be sure to ask him.

 

[Daniel Payne]

One company that often gets mentioned as a possibility to acquire Mentor Graphics is Dassault Systemes.