Avr + Pic = ?

Atmel + Microchip + On semi = ?

Atmel Press Room
http://www.atmel.com/corporate/documents/SLL_Customer_Letter.pdf

That would be really weird..
I would just pray that their product lines could be consolidated to the benefit of consumers and the industry at large.
I think it has the possibilities of being good, but intent when companies like that merge easily gets shuffled aside and corrupted as the merger begins and internal conflicts arise. That's almost like AMD and Intel merging. Just not as big.