neutrino23

With a King's Ransom in Cash, Why Still No Buying Spree in the Tech Space?

Last year Apple bought P.A. Semi. That probably was a good indicator of their thinking. They didn't buy them simply to get bigger or because they were cheap they bought them because they wanted the talent and IP.

Going forward I'd expect more of the same. They'll buy a company if they identify it as owning some IP that they think will help them accelerate the main business.

Certainly price would be important if they were to look at trying to ingest Adobe. However, if they want to acquire a smaller company owning critical IP what difference does it make if the price is $50M or $100M if the end result is they can increase sales by 10% (about $4B/year now)?