NXP and Freescale CEOs Defend Private Equity
November 15, 2012
The CEOs of NXP and Freescale defended the record of private equity companies in the semiconductor industry at the Electronica Forum CEO Round Table in Munich this morning.
I asked the panel if the fact that NXP and Freescale hadn't grown since they were acquired by private equity in 2006 showed that the private equity model was a bad one for the semiconductor industry.
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