Category: Semiconductor Mergers

Semiconductor Mergers and Potential Mergers in 2015-6 (latest Broadcom buys Brocade and potentially Skyworks buying Microsemi)

11/3/2016

The semiconductor industry continues to consolidate. Last month Qualcomm offered to buy NXP and this month Broadcom is buying Brocade Communications for $5.5 Billion. It also appears that Skyworks Solution is in talks to acquire Microemi.

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Update 3: $30Bill Semiconductor Merger - Analog Devices buying Linear Technology

7/27/2016

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Semiconductor companies continued to merge in 2016. The latest is Analog Devices buying Linear, to boost its profitability and increase its share in the fragmented market for analog chips, which process signals such as sound, light, and temperature and convert them into digital signals. The chips are central to smartphones and devices connected to the internet.

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Cavium Buys QLogic (Storage, Networking Merger)

6/16/2016

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Another semiconductor merger:

Cavium Inc. will take on Broadcom, Intel, and Mellanox in storage and networking with its billion-dollar acquisition of Qlogic Corp. The deal teams one of the semiconductor’s fastest growing companies with one just starting to emerge from a decline.

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Semiconductor Mergers and Potential Mergers in 2015-6 (latest Broadcom buys Brocade and potentially Skyworks buying Microsemi)

Update 3: $30Bill Semiconductor Merger - Analog Devices buying Linear Technology

Cavium Buys QLogic (Storage, Networking Merger)

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