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Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Conexant goes private

Posted on 07:19 by Unknown
Acquisition by Golden Gate CompletedBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

One of the world's classic embedded chip suppliers, Conexant Systems, has been sold to private equity just like NXP and Freescale Semiconductors. In a deal that saw the company sold in the face of an earlier competing offer by SMSC,  it is now 'merged' into a new venture, Gold Acquisition Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of
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