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ON Semiconductor's shares fell 24% after the company announced a deal with Synaptics, a drop severe enough to prompt the chief executive to publicly defend the direction of the core business.
The company's strategic rationale centers on physical AI — a bet ON Semi says opens up an additional $30 billion in addressable market.
A Deal the Market Didn't Buy A 24% single-session decline is a clear verdict: investors read the Synaptics transaction as a risk to the existing business, not a straightforward extension of it.
When an announced deal triggers that kind of drawdown, the market is usually saying one of two things — that the price is wrong, or that the strategic logic doesn't hold.
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