Donald Rheault

There are several sales team approaches by the companies in the analog IC business-some are more succesful than others.    You have to balance cost of sales with a successful sales effort. National has too few "feet on the street" to compete for new designs with Analog Devices, On,...

Intel is much stronger in the processing side and as geometries shrink and the price of fabs skyrocket the larger company has a distinct edge going forward. Companies that make computers want a strong AMD to balance Intel's demands and break their almost sole source price stance. AMD has to develop...

AMD adds the potential to gobble up more of the PC siliconThe graphics chip is a big differentiator in the consumer PC and game marketComputer companies will look at whole package offering of AMD vs Intel

The move could add new customers to LSI base.It certainly adds depth to the storage market offerings.The standard product offerings lessen their problems competing constantly with Altera and other FPGA vendors which are moving up in complexity and number of gates and lowering NRE barrier.