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Technology Stocks : Oak Technology (OAKT)

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To: Sparky65 who wrote (3864)1/23/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: slob  Read Replies (1) of 4335
 
Sparky: Who's going to want to buy OAKT's PC MM business?

It seems to me that Oakt needed to be thinking about selling out 3 to 6 months ago. At the moment I can't think of anyone that would even give them a thank you for the business. Basically OPTI and Ensoniq sold out to CREAF. VLSI couldn't sell their audio business and TSNG sold out to ATI. The only buyers that I would see are:
DSPG (I think that Oakts WARP processor is based on a DSPG core)
TXN ( they have almost no PC audio presence and cracks in the 3Dlabs deal)
AMD ( highly unlikely they were already in this area and got out )
INTC (what for: they have deals with 3dlabs and CHPS)
NSM ( has lots of problems with Cyrix Audio already)

My bet for a buyer would probably be someone like Tritech or maybe one of the Tiawan design houses, AURL might be interested in the Video business but it would have to be cheap.

Slob
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