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RCA also gave their crown jewels of semiconductor technology to what became MediaTek as RCA distracted itself with non-core acquisitions (transforming itself into "rugs, chickens, and automobiles," leading to their decline).

https://taiwaninsight.org/2024/05/10/a-short-history-of-semi...

Edit: I'm typing this on a Kindle that uses a MediaTek CPU (I don't know if UMC fabbed it).



Buying Ralink was also a hella good move. Founded in Cupertino California in 2001, made pretty solid wifi chipsets, sold to MediaTek 2011. https://corp.mediatek.com/news-events/press-releases/mediate...

The scope of mergers & acquisitions in semiconductors is mind boggling & terrifying. It feels like there's so much less diversity, that there's a frailty of entirely Too Big To Fail players left.




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