AEG AG – controlled by Daimler Benz AG – has now taken its stake in Siliconix Inc to 39%, buying 1m shares at $10 apiece and buying the shares held by Westinghouse Electric Corp: it also paid $500,000 for a 10-year option to acquire non-exclusive licences to a variety of Siliconix technologies in the fields of high power MOS Field Effect Transistors and Power semiconductors; the option on another 1m shares at an exercise price of $10.50 a time would take AEG’s holding to 43% by the end of the year.
