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...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Pingtouge in September hosted a panel featuring the commercialisation of RISC-V — pronounced “risk five” — at a Shanghai semiconductor expo....
...Additional reporting by Tim Bradshaw Apple v Qualcomm: two years of conflict January 2017 US Federal Trade Commission sues Qualcomm, alleging monopolistic behaviour and charging of excessive licence fees...
...WPP will also reduce is planned capex from £400m to v£300m....
...“Our organisation is fatigued and tired at the process,” Mr Clemmer said, especially after completing NXP’s acquisition of Freescale so close to beginning the Qualcomm transaction....
...I’m surprised it has taken this long for there to be more consolidation in the semiconductor market.”...
...The Philadelphia Semiconductor index has risen 32 per cent since the deal was announced....
...In the age of the PC, it was all about Intel v Advanced Micro Devices, with the former supplying processors for four out of five computers sold and AMD mopping up most of the remainder....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...The talks are the latest attempt by a US company to further consolidate the ailing semiconductor sector....
...systems, boosted by the $11bn acquisition of US chipmaker Freescale late last year....
...NXP Semiconductors, the Dutch chipmaker, last year acquired Freescale of the US for $11.8bn, while Singapore-based Avago purchased US rival Broadcom for $37bn....
...In 2015 Singapore’s Avago bought US rival Broadcom for $37bn; NXP Semiconductors, the Dutch chipmaker, acquired Freescale in an $11.8bn deal, and in June Intel took over Altera, a maker of programmable processors...
...In March, NXP Semiconductors, the Dutch chipmaker, took over Freescale in an $11.8bn deal, and in June Intel bought Altera, a maker of programmable processors, for $16.7bn....
...NXP’s $11.8bn agreement to acquire Freescale....
...semiconductor industry....
...In March, Netherlands-based NXP agreed to acquire Freescale for about $11.8bn....
...The latest example involves Avago, a semiconductor maker that is to buy rival Broadcom for $37bn....
...The largest came earlier this year when NXP and Freescale agreed to merge in a deal with an enterprise value of $40bn....
...Avago Technologies, a manufacturer of semiconductors for smartphones, is in advanced talks to acquire Broadcom, people familiar with the matter said....
...In fact, the quarter’s emblematic private equity deal may be an exit: the sale of Freescale to its semiconductor rival NXP, following its soured $17.6bn buyout by a club of firms in 2006....
...Now, with plans to list Univision and having just sold Freescale, the US semiconductor group, to rival NXP, the private equity community is finally putting the period behind it....
...Semiconductor, continue to languish below their purchase prices....
...Freescale, the world leader in chipmaking for the networking market, has begun to use Arm’s designs....
...It has also invested in the debt of Allison Transmission, Freescale Semiconductor and Realogy Group, buyout deals led by KKR’s rivals. To finance the acquisition, KKR plans to issue 100m new shares....
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