For months a rumor has circulated about the company acquiring Ascend Communications asnd, the billion-dollar maker of IP access gear with a strong presence among Internet service providers.
Semiconductor makers are happy to pay if the robots can save a few minutes here and there on a billion dollars' worth of equipment.
The Candy Crush maker already brings in nearly $2 billion in annual revenue, and over half a billion dollars of profit — all from mobile games.
They have estimated Rambus could collect hundreds of millions, if not several billion, dollars from chip makers over the next 10 years.
And taxpayer losses of more than half a billion dollars on Solyndra, a bankrupt maker of solar modules that defaulted on a federal loan, has tarnished the image of renewable power in particular.
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One can see how this won't translate into movie terms: Clearly the makers of Pearl Harbor could not have presented it as a half-hour long, hundred-million dollarecreationof of the destruction of our battleship navy.
The nascent market for this so-called Metro WDM gear has attracted lots of attention from big equipment makers because it's expected to explode to several billion dollars annually within five years.
Although the lamps market will bring in an estimated thirty-eight billion dollars this year, L.E.D.-bulb makers are already reacting to the spectre of declining sales.
The boutique investment bank's retreat, which has sparked its share of multibillion dollar transactions like Comcast's recent purchase of a majority stake in NBC Universal, is attracting a bevy of deal makers.
"A billion dollars is not that huge of an amount to pay for Maker, as it gets Conexant into the ATM-related network processor maker," says Osha about the Conexant-Maker deal.
