One of the most unfortunately timed IPOs was the 2001 IPO of Agere. The genealogy of Agere was it spun out of Lucent Microelectronics which had spun out of AT&T Microelectronics. The very worst time to IPO in the last 20 years was 2001 – the year of the biggest crash the semiconductor market ever saw …
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