The consolidation among major semiconductor firms will not stop with the Broadcom/Avago, NXP/Freescale and Intel/Altera acquisitions. Other vendors will soon be on the block, and one is likely to be Atmel, according to Reuters. The news agency reports that the company is looking for a buyer. Though not a giant like those mentioned above, with 2014 revenues of $1.41bn, Atmel has some activities which should be attractive to acquirers. Its touch sensing and microcontroller technologies are highly relevant to areas where most device chip suppliers are looking to expand – new connected gadgets and the internet of things (IoT). It has also been assembling the pieces of an end-to-end IoT chip platform, adding more connectivity via its acquisition of Newport…