From：Microwave Journal

It has been a tumultuous couple of years for M/A-COM. The company has been split up and sold off to several different companies by Tyco Electronics and Cobham plc. This iconic company, dubbed "The First Name in Microwave," has been reborn as M/A-COM Technology Solutions (M/A-COM Tech) under its new owner and industry entrepreneur, John Ocampo.

M/A-COM was independent for about 45 years until it was purchased in 1995 by connector giant AMP, a company that wanted to diversify into other markets. In 1999 AMP was acquired by the even larger Tyco International. In 2007, Tyco International split up into three companies, one of which was Tyco Electronics (the medical companies formed a new company called Covidien; the security companies stayed with the Tyco International name). Tyco Electronics contained the former AMP and M/A-COM companies along with many other brands. Shortly after that time, Tyco Electronics decided most of the M/A-COM product portfolio was not part of its future strategy and put the defense and commercial components businesses up for sale.

Cobham plc purchased the commercial and defense components businesses in 2008 with the intent to re-sell the commercial business as soon as a buyer was found. At about the same time, the automotive sensor products were sold to Autoliv, a Swedish auto parts supplier. Cobham recently found a buyer as GaAs Labs purchased the commercial components business, which retains its name developed under Cobham as M/A-COM Technology Solutions (John Ocampo is the owner of the GaAs Labs group, which is also a large investor in Mimix Broadband). In between all of this, Micronetics purchased the RFID product lines from the commercial business in a separate transaction, which should complement the company's existing product lines.

Last year, the private radio group of M/A-COM (Wireless Systems) was purchased from Tyco Electronics by Harris Corp. This should bring strength to both groups as Harris has a strong foothold in the military mobile radio market and M/A-COM Wireless Systems has been growing primarily in the public safety market. Therefore, pieces of the original M/A-COM now reside with Cobham, Autoliv, Micronetics, Harris and M/A-COM Technology Solutions, which is the entity that will carry on the brand name that started 60 years ago in Boston, MA.

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看吧，这个鸟公司被买来卖去，钞票飞来飞去，真好玩。