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Technology Stocks : Atmel - the trend is about to change
ATML 8.1400.0%Apr 12 4:00 PM EDT

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To: JakeStraw who wrote (13531)7/13/2006 1:22:12 PM
From: Ian@SI  Read Replies (1) of 13565
 
not necessarily. If I remember correctly, ATML bought some French specialty chip company in the mid 90s complete with fab. Given the difficulty in laying off excess deadwood in France, the easiest way to deal with an obsolete fab and personnel would be to just dump the entire company; and move whatever operations one wants to sustain to the far east.
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