2020-10-29 - TrendForce

AMD Set to Become Fourth Largest IC Designer After Xilinx Acquisition

Should the Xilinx acquisition proceed as planned, AMD will greatly increase its influence across industries and in turn overtake MediaTek in revenue, becoming the fourth largest IC design company behind third-place Nvidia, according to TrendForce...

2020-10-28 - Brian Santo

AMD Confirms Xilinx Acquisition To Become HPC Leader

AMD said it is buying Xilinx for $35 billion; the deal is all about high performance computing. The company also reported Q4 earnings...

2020-10-20 - Ben Yeh

SK Hynix to Possess Second Highest NAND Market Share via Acquisition of Intel’s NAND Unit

SK Hynix has announced today (Oct. 20) that it will acquire Intel’s NAND Flash business and Dalian-based Fab 68, which is dedicated to 3D NAND Flash production, for US$9 billion...

2020-10-14 - Kevin Krewell

Are AMD and Xilinx A Perfect Match?

For AMD to acquire a company as large as Xilinx comes as a shock to many. Reportedly, the deal would cost AMD $30 billion, which is almost a third of its market capitalization...

2020-10-12 - Sally Ward-Foxton

AMD Looks to Expand Data Center Portfolio with Xilinx Deal

A potential AMD-Xilinx deal could make the scrappy CPU/GPU company a real contender in the data center AI market...

- Brian Santo

AMD is Said in Talks to Buy Xilinx

If the deal goes through, AMD is likely to end up paying roughly $30 billion for Xilinx...

2020-10-08 - IC Insights

Two Acquisitions Make 2020 Second-Highest Year for Semi M&As

After a slow start, Analog Devices' agreement to buy Maxim and Nvidia's deal to acquire ARM raise the total value of M&A deals this year to more than $63.0 billion.

2020-10-06 - TrendForce

Top 10 Tech Industry Trends for 2021

TrendForce provides its forecast of 10 key trends in the tech industry for 2021...

2020-09-29 - TrendForce

BOE to Control 28% of Large-Sized Panel Capacity in 2021 via CEC Panda Acquisition

BOE announced its plan to acquire an 80.831% share in CEC Panda’s Nanjing-based Gen 8.5 fab and 51% share in CEC Panda’s Chengdu-based Gen 8.6+ fab. If the acquisition takes place successfully, BOE will possess more than a quarter of the global large-sized panel capacity...

2020-09-22 - John Walko

Ericsson Acquires Cradlepoint to Accelerate Enterprise 5G

Ericsson purchased Cradlepoint, for $1.1 billion. The move gets the company directly into the growing enterprise-based 5G market...

2020-09-21 - George Leopold

Global AI Chip Market is Booming

Machine vision and automative applications are propelling the demand for AI chips to new heights...

2020-09-17 - IC Insights

Nvidia’s $40 Billion ARM Purchase Will Test Current M&A ‘Ceiling’

Potentially the largest acquisition in semiconductor history faces plenty of obstacles.