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[1] If another suitor shows up and the price pops 8 dollars before the deals closes, we have dinner at JW@KSC's place just before a night launch. And not to forget Mark Lewin--all of us from the Interop dinner. I will buy the food, the champagne and the tickets down.
[2] No new bidder and I buy the meal: the tickets and the champagne are Dutch. (I think I would invite Steve Macica, too. And I would have bought his ticket in the first instance if he had posted more.)
[3] If the TXN deal craters, you and Jim and Mark deliver the eulogy.
My head says the Amati story is over; my gut says there will be an epilog...>>>
Hey, I'm game for any of the above, except number 3. No eulogies for this one. Just a bar mitzvah for the technology.
As for the story being over, it's my head that tells me it's not. I think about what TI's dominance does to Motorola and NEC and Siemens and Lucent and it just doesn't seem possible one or more won't decide to bid. I'd put money on at least one stepping forward. Well, actually, by buying Jan 20s I have.
Someone said no one wants a bidding war with TI, well, don't these guys engage in one form of war or another all the time? Whoever steps forward had better do it before the tender nets TI 51%.
Since leaving town raises the selling price, I'll do it for you this time --- off to SF tomorrow. Back by Tuesday night. Think you can fetch $25 while I'm gone??? I prefer stock to cash. :))
Cheers!
Pat |
