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    Broadcom, Qualcomm Latest Acquirers in Busy Chip Space

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    Jeff Burt
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    November 10, 2016
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      1Broadcom, Qualcomm Latest Acquirers in Busy Chip Space

      1 - Broadcom, Qualcomm Latest Acquirers in Busy Chip Space

      As competitors gobble each other up to boost their market share and IT, the semiconductor space is consolidating. Here’s a look at some notable acquisition deals.

      2Qualcomm Gets Ready to Take the Wheel

      2 - Qualcomm Gets Ready to Take the Wheel

      Qualcomm’s $47 billion acquisition of NXP Semiconductors will give it a boost in such fast-growing industries as automotive technologies and IoT. The deal continues Qualcomm’s efforts to grow beyond mobile devices, which have included other acquisitions such as British chip maker CSR for $2.5 billion in 2014. There were reports that Intel and Texas Instruments also were interested in NXP.

      3NXP Still Digesting Freescale

      3 - NXP Still Digesting Freescale

      Qualcomm’s bid for NXP comes only a year after NXP bought Freescale Semiconductor for $12 billion in a move to bolster its capabilities in automotive—including self-driving cars—and other areas. The merged company includes $10 billion in combined revenue and 45,000 employees.

      4Broadcom in the Middle of It All

      4 - Broadcom in the Middle of It All

      In a bid to broaden its capabilities in storage-area networks (SANs), Broadcom officials this month announced the company was buying Brocade Communications for $5.9 billion. Broadcom’s focus is on Brocade’s SAN technology, and so officials plan to sell off Brocade’s IP networking business, including the recently acquired Ruckus Wireless.

      5Avago Becomes Broadcom

      5 - Avago Becomes Broadcom

      Avago Technologies, which was born in 2005 after spinning out of Agilent—which itself had spun out of Hewlett-Packard in 1999—bought Broadcom in 2015 for $37 billion and adopted the Broadcom name. It was the highest-priced acquisition in the chip industry until Qualcomm’s bid for NXP. Since launching in 2005, Avago made several other acquisitions, including CyOptics, LSI and Emulex.

      6Broadcom Makes WICED Deal With Cypress

      6 - Broadcom Makes WICED Deal With Cypress

      Soon after the Avago deal, the new Broadcom sold its WICED (Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices, pronounced “wicked”) platform for IoT and wearable devices to Cypress Semiconductor for $550 million.

      7Intel Accelerates Into the Future

      7 - Intel Accelerates Into the Future

      In 2015, Intel spent $16.7 billion to buy Altera, a company that makes accelerator technology known as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), chips that can be programmed by the user. FPGAs are a key part of Intel’s plans for everything from IoT to the data center.

      8Renesas and the IoT

      8 - Renesas and the IoT

      Renesas, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) maker, is buying Intersil for $3.2 billion in a move to make a push into IoT, connected cars and other emerging markets. Intersil’s strengths are around power management and precision capabilities in analog chips.

      9Softbank Flexes Its ARM

      9 - Softbank Flexes Its ARM

      In a surprise move in July, tech giant Softbank announced it is buying chip designer ARM for $32.2 billion as it looks to extend its reach deeper into the IoT. Softbank officials pledge that ARM, which designs the SoCs that power the bulk of the smartphones and tablets in the world, will remain an independent company that will get an even larger workforce.

      10China Comes Shopping and Buys Lattice

      10 - China Comes Shopping and Buys Lattice

      Canyon Bridge Capital Partners, backed by $1.3 billion in Chinese funding, announced earlier this month it is buying Lattice Semiconductor, a U.S.-based programmable chip maker whose products are found in connected cars. The deal is the latest effort by China-based entities to buy U.S. chip companies.

      11Tsinghua on the Move

      11 - Tsinghua on the Move

      Tsinghua Unigroup of China also has been an active investor in and pursuer of chip makers. The company has bought stakes in Imagination Technologies, Marvell Technology and Lattice, but attempts to acquire other vendors—including Micron and MediaTek—have been derailed by regulators in the United States and Taiwan.

      12So, Who’s Next?

      12 - So, Who's Next?

      The ongoing acquisition activity in the chip market has gotten industry observers wondering which company might be next, with vendors such as Xilinx considered an attractive target. Earlier this year, there was speculation that Qualcomm and Broadcom were interested in the FPGA maker.

      13Making Room for New Blood

      13 - Making Room for New Blood

      The comings and goings in the chip industry aren’t keeping startups from trying to muscle into the space. New companies including SiFive, developer of open-source SoCs based on the RISC-V architecture, and Graphcore, creator of chips for machine learning called intelligent processing units, or IPUs, see room for new ideas.

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