Thursday, November 3, 2016

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


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 .


See below a table summarizing all these deals and the potential deals.




Ron

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NXP/Freescale
March 2015
$ 12 Billion
Cypress Semiconductor/ Spansion
March 2015
$ 5 Billion
NXP RF/ Jianguang Asset Management
May 2015
$ 1.8 Billion
Avago/Broadcom
May 2015
$ 36.7 Billion
Intel/ Altera
June 2015
$16.7 Billion
Microchip/ Micrel
Aug 2015
$0.8 Billion
LAM/ KLA-Tencor
Oct2015
$10.6 Billion
Western Digital/ SanDisk
Oct2015
$19 Billion
Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, ? /Maxim
Oct2015
$9+ Billion
Microsemi/ PMC-Sierra
Nov 2015
$2.5 Billion
On Semiconductor or China Resources  / Fairchild Semiconductor
Dec 2015
$2.5 Billion
Dialog/ Microchip Technology / Atmel
Jan 2016
$3.6 Billion

June 206
$1 Billion
SoftBank wants to purchase of ARM
July 2016
$32 Billions
Qualcomm buy NXP
Oct 2016
38.5 Billions
Broadcom to Buy Brocade Communications
Nov 2016
$5.5 Billion
Skyworks in talks to buy Microsemi
Nov 2016