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13.50-per-share all-cash offer, incurring a very high premium. Monolithic followed with a lawsuit in
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of the same capacity; when more than one read/write operation occurs within a bank, the on-chip memory controller redirects access to the cache, allowing the cells within the bank to be refreshed. All banks not involved in a given transaction are meanwhile refreshed in the background. This
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Monolithic and paid the company a $ 10 million termination fee as part of the merger contract. This came after Synopsys had switched the terms of their acquisition, proposing to Monolithic a $
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in 2001. Over 25 million units of 1T-SRAM were produced up to
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The company began narrowing its chip sales in 1998, in favor of licensing its patents to other semiconductor memory companies. In
September 2000, Monolithic's board members voted to reincorporate the company in
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