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| | Electronic News: Philips Bids For VLSI Tech - Royal Philips Electronics bids for VLSI Technology - Company Business and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Cor Boonstra, president and chief executive officer of Philips, and Arthur van der Poel, the chief executive of Philips Semiconductors, met last Thursday with Alfred J. Stein, chairman and CEO of VLSI, to propose the merger, according to a letter from Boonstra to Stein released last week by Philips. |
 | | VLSI reportedly received and rejected a takeover offer from LSI Logic in the past year in the range of $20, according to sources in the arbitrage community. |
 | | VLSI is producing chips for hand-held phones, mainly CDMA and GSM technology. |
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