NXP buys/merges with Freescale

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by starblue on Mon Mar 02 04:17:45 MST 2015
http://www.nxp.com/news/press-releases/2015/03/nxp-and-freescale-announce-40-billion-merger.html

Any ideas on the implications for microcontrollers?

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Content originally posted in LPCWare by mares.vit on Fri Apr 03 02:07:48 MST 2015
NXP gains a group of powerful devices with Cortex-A processors.
It will be interesting to watch which of Kinetis MCUs will be discontinued and which of them will become a part of NXP portfolio.