Mature market looses its pioneers

When Microssemi takeover of Actel is done it will mean the end to last largely independent vendor of programmable logic. It also means the market is mature and left for playing by the two leaders Altera and Xilinx.
Its CEO (Actels) John East tried to steer the company into more Aerospace Market where the had a success but managing large accounts is harder and harder to manage for an independent vendor. The only way out was to concentrate on smaller accounts where lower performance and addition of analogue function was not without its success back to the top.
From that point of view the take over by Microsemi is seen and a way in the right direction for both.
It is however to be seen if corporate cultures would grow in together or not.