Yamaha and Steinberg Announce Hardware Brand Transition More than 20 years since Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH was acquired and integrated into the Yamaha Group, the historical German company continues to be a global reference in music production and p...

Seriously, every company I look at has been eaten. Ok, this really happened 20 years ago but anyway... Steinberg were Commodore 64 MIDI pioneers. I do have a simple Yamaha mixing board, Steinberg could've ended up worse, I guess

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Monolithic Power Systems Acquires Axign Monolithic Power Systems (MPS), a global company specializing in high-performance power solutions announced the acquisition of Axign B.V., the Netherlands-based fabless semiconductor startup that spec...

The Dutch startup Axign has been taken over by MPS.
Small companies innovate and then they are taken over by a big one. Is this really sustainable in the long run?

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Infineon Acquires GaN Systems: A Power Move in Semiconductors The merger between Infineon and GaN Systems heralds a new dawn in semiconductor technology, driving efficiency and innovation in the industry.

GaN Systems, a Canadian pioneer in GaN transistor technology, was bought by Infineon, spun off from Siemens in 1999. Infineon has gotten at least a billion Euro of tax-payer money.

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