Semiconductor Mergers, Acquisitions, and Potentials 2015-2017

​Below is the latest and 5th version of the table of semiconductor consolidations and mergers that have taken place over the last 3 years and those that started to heat up again this year.

NXP / Freescale, March 2015, $12 BIllion

Cypress Semiconductor / Spanion, March 2015, $5 Billion

NXP RF / Jianguang Asset Management, May 2015, $1.8 Billion

Avago / Broadcom, May 2015, $6.7 Billion

Intel / Altera, June 2015, $16.7 Billion

Microchip / Micrel, August 2015, $0.8 Billion

LAM / KLA-Tencor, October 2015, $10.6 Billion

Western Digital / SanDisk, October 2015, $19 Billion

Texas Instruments, Analog Devices / Maxim, October 2015, $9+ Billion

Microsemi / PMC-Sierra, November 2015, $2.5 Billion

On Semiconductor or China Resources / Fairchild Semiconductor, December 2015, $2.5 Billion

Dialog / Microchip Technology / Atmel, January 2016, $3.6 Billion

Cavium / QLogic, June 2016, $1 Billion

SoftBank / ARM, July 2016, 432 Billion

Qualcomm / NXP, October 2016, $38.5 Billion

Boadcom / Brocade Communications, November 2016, $5.5 Billion

Skyworks / Microsemi, November 2016, Amount Unconfirmed

Western Digital / ​San Disk, May 2017, $19 Billion

Toshiba's Flash / Bain-led Group, September 2017, $18 BIllion

Broadcom / Qualcomm, November 2017, $105 Billion

Marvell / Cavium, November 2017, $6 Billion

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