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\n<\/span><\/p>\nTexas Instruments (TI) is to pay $6.5bn (\u00a34bn) for National Semiconductor in one of the microchip industry’s biggest deals for years.<\/p>\n
The deal boosts TI’s leadership in analogue chips used in devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers.<\/p>\n
Dallas-based TI is paying a 78% premium to National’s closing share price on Monday, sparking a sharp rise in rivals’ shares.<\/p>\n
The deal takes TI past Toshiba as the world’s third biggest chipmaker.<\/p>\n
Analysts were surprised at the price being paid.<\/p>\n
“Texas Instruments has been a pretty prudent company. There is either some kind of buried patent [owned by National Semiconductor] that is unbelievably attractive to them, or there were other bidders and they felt pressured to get it,” said Fort Pitt Capital analyst Kim Caughey Forrest.<\/p>\n
Analogue chips convert audio and video to digital signals in a wide range of electronic devices from mobile phones to media players.<\/p>\n
Apple iPods and the Motorola Xoom tablet computer both use analogue chips made by Texas Instruments.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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