| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 281.1 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Tue Mar 17 1987 16:57 | 8 |
| We did not consider buying Mostek - we were qualifying Mostek as
a second source of our semiconductor products, but that fell through
when Mostek did.
DEC management has repeatedly said that we're not in the acquisition
business, and I think that's fine. What would we get out of
buying Fairchild, a semiconductor company that is not doing so well?
Steve
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| 281.2 | Look to the people that run DEC | HUDSON::PIERPONT | | Tue Mar 17 1987 22:32 | 6 |
| I would suggest a look at the list of Vice Presidents that we have
and see where they came from. Check the BOD, too.
Do we need to buy Fairchild? Not in my opinion.
Howard
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| 281.3 | | SAUTER::SAUTER | John Sauter | Wed Mar 18 1987 08:13 | 5 |
| Although Fujitsu has not technically bought Fairchild, it appears
from the news reports that the two companies will be doing a lot
of joint ventures together. They may remain separate companies
in name only.
John Sauter
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| 281.4 | Mostek purchase dates from '77 | SLDA::OPP | | Wed Mar 18 1987 13:49 | 17 |
| RE: .1
When I joined DEC in 1977, DEC was manufacturing 4K dynamic RAM's
at a facility in Worcester leased from Sprague. The process and
design for these 4K RAM's was purchased from Mostek. My cost center
manager at the time told me DEC had considered buying Mostek, ap-
parently to acquire its dynamic RAM design and production capability.
It probably was a wise decision not to buy it, considering the
commodity nature of the DRAM business today.
I suspect purchasing Fairchild would be equally risky. It is
my impression that DEC intends to design and build only those
IC's which it can't get outside or which are too sensitive to
have designed by a potential competitor.
Greg
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