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...Another company that falls under the tech banner for Liontrust is Infineon, a German semiconductor maker with customers ranging from electric vehicle carmakers to wind turbine manufacturers....
...As a result, the carmaker is pursuing partnerships with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s most valuable chipmaker, as well as NXP Semiconductors, Qualcomm and others....
...And Beijing forced Qualcomm to abandon a $44bn acquisition of Dutch peer NXP....
...Their previous deals include acquiring Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors’ chipmaking division Nexperia in 2016, and buying four plants in China from ASE Technology Holding, the world’s largest chip packaging...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 6 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Products from such companies — Texas Instruments, NXP Semiconductors, Nexperia and STMicroelectronics among them — are not only widely used in consumer electronics, but also in industrial, aerospace, automotive...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 24, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Months later, Qualcomm’s own $44bn takeover of Dutch rival NXP was thwarted when it failed to gain regulatory approval from China....
...Pinterest and chipmakers AMD and NXP also report. Wednesday: Hardware sales are expected to boost earnings for Apple....
...Now snow hits semisThe Arctic weather sweeping through Texas is threatening to exacerbate a global shortage in semiconductors, after several manufacturing plants near Austin were forced to shut down....
...NXP’s acquisition of the WiFi business of Marvell Technology Group for $1.8bn....
...In this regard, the saga is reminiscent of the first US-China corporate proxy war in the spring of 2018 over ZTE, the Chinese telecoms company, and Qualcomm, the US semiconductor giant....
...Germany’s Infineon Technologies last year agreed to buy US rival Cypress Semiconductor for €9bn, while Dutch semiconductor group NXP acquired the WiFi business of Marvell Technology Group for $1.8bn....
...Qualcomm gets a hostile takeover bid from Broadcom March 2018 Broadcom bid for Qualcomm blocked by US President Donald Trump on national security grounds July 2018 Qualcomm’s bid for Dutch chipmaker NXP...
...Then there was the $121bn hostile takeover bid from Broadcom that might have succeeded if the White House had not intervened — not to mention the $44bn acquisition (of NXP) that was scrapped when China failed...
...It is true, too, that China has put considerable resources into building a homegrown semiconductor industry with little to show for it....
...Shares in Dutch semiconductor maker NXP fell about 3 per cent in pre-market New York trading to $97.70, as investors wait to learn whether its planned $44bn takeover by US rival Qualcomm secures last-minute...
...Shares in Dutch semiconductor group NXP are set to open sharply lower on Thursday, falling as much as 12 per cent in pre-market New York trading after Qualcomm failed to get Chinese regulatory approval for...
...But semiconductors and critical telecommunications markets are where the real contradictions lie....
...NXP shares closed down 5.7 per cent at $92.81 on Thursday....
...The USA (#4) and Portugal (#9) were already excluded from the list and the Spain decision will not imbue confidence that others destinations won’t be excluded at short notice....
...Paul Singer’s Elliott Management and Matthew Halbower’s Pentwater Capital are among those caught up in US chipmaker Qualcomm’s $44bn pursuit of NXP Semiconductors, a takeover first agreed when Barack Obama...
...More than $200bn worth of M&A deals were announced in the semiconductor industry in 2015 and 2016, including Qualcomm and NXP’s, as smaller chipmakers sought the safety of scale, larger players diversified...
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