Atmel, which is supposed to merge with Dialog at the beginning of 2016, announced on 11 December 2015 that it had received an unsolicited bid offer at $9 per share, vs. the cash and share proposal from Dialog ($4.65 in cash and 0.112 of a Dialog American depository receipt for each share of the stock) which offered around $8.6 at the 11 December 2015 closing price.
