Cypress merges with SPansion in 5 Bn$ deal

[free_electron]

Big shakeup happening at Maxim as well...

also Intel and Altera are cooking ...

infineon is also cooking ... (they already borged IR but want to borg another. .. )

and then there are prime candidates to be borged ... Atmel, Silabs ..

[calexanian]

Big shakeup happening at Maxim as well...

also Intel and Altera are cooking ...

infineon is also cooking ... (they already borged IR but want to borg another. .. )

and then there are prime candidates to be borged ... Atmel, Silabs ..

We are the Borg. Lower your standards and surrender your IP. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile

[T3sl4co1l]

Maxim?  But who would want *that*?

[SeanB]

Maybe you would be able to get chips from them other than sample quantities with less leadtime..............

[Bassman59]

and then there are prime candidates to be borged ...  Silabs ..

I hope not. They're one company that seems to "get it." Let's see, inexpensive programming dongles and dev boards and parts that work as advertised for good prices? Count me in.

[photon]

Big shakeup happening at Maxim as well...

You are correct free_electron:   http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326561&
Microchip wants Micrel, which I think may be another smart move by Sanghi.

[photon]

This merger beats them all: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326717
Who the hell is Avago?

[free_electron]

This merger beats them all: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1326717
Who the hell is Avago?

who is avago ? avago is the spin off from hp/agilent that makes optoelectronics ( led's and displays and chips ). they already borged LSI logic last year , now they are after Broadcomm ...

The silicon industry is undergoing a massive shakeout and merger wave. more to follow ...

[Mechanical Menace]

Aren't Avago also a big in solid state storage?

[free_electron]

Aren't Avago also a big in solid state storage?

afaik : the silicon storage unit from LSI (who had already borged Sandforce) was sold to Seagate when they (Avago and LSI) merged.

[Mechanical Menace]

Aren't Avago also a big in solid state storage?

afaik : the silicon storage unit from LSI (who had already borged Sandforce) was sold to Seagate when they (Avago and LSI) merged.

Ah thanks. I just half recognised the name but had no real reason to know of them iykwim.

[photon]

Aren't Avago also a big in solid state storage?

afaik : the silicon storage unit from LSI (who had already borged Sandforce) was sold to Seagate when they (Avago and LSI) merged.

Sandforce was LSI's entry to SSD drives. Prior to that LSI had a long history in the hard disk drive business, especially in FC (fiber channel) and its predecessor SCSI drives for server applications. Emulex was a long time provider for HBA's (Host Bus Adapters) using LSI silicon. Both Emulex and LSI were bought by Avago, but it's unclear to me what survives of LSI or Emulex after the merger.

[photon]

None of the guys I work with knew anything about Avago, so something was fishy. Sure enough, they have no engineering history. It started life when HP spun out their semiconductor unit as part of Agilent in 1999. After the dot-com bubble burst it was bought by KKR and Silver Lake in 2005 for 2.6 billion. That is when it went from an engineering to money driven company. KKR, recall, is the notorious leveraged buyout company of the 80's.

[andersm]

Avago make optical encoders used in a ton of printers etc. They also used to make the motion sensors used by pretty much all gaming mice, but they got out of that business a few years ago.

[rs20]

afaik : the silicon storage unit from LSI (who had already borged Sandforce) was sold to Seagate when they (Avago and LSI) merged.

Surely someone, somewhere, has drawn a diagram showing all this... a "family tree" of chipmakers.

[tom66]

The company I work at uses a ton of Broadcom processors (set-top box stuff), they knew nothing about the Broadcom buyout.

But I guess anyone knowing about it could conduct insider trading, so they're usually pretty secret about it.

[PioB]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys-altera-for-16-7-billion-as-chip-deals-accelerate

Seen here: http://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/382ufj/intel_buys_altera_for_167b

[miguelvp]

The writing was on the wall

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/intel-to-purchase-altera/

I think the Broadcom  buyout pushed Altera to finally do it.

Can't wait for the first Xeon/FPGA chip.

[rsjsouza]

This phenomenon in SC manufacturing is similar to the auto industry a century ago:

http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/automobile/

[free_electron]

and the wave isn't over yet ...

[miguelvp]

and the wave isn't over yet ...

Qualcomm's turn I guess.

Edit: but there is also Nvidia, hmm, if I was Intel I'll go for the later.

[free_electron]

BOOM. another one...

The status so far

- Volterra borged by Maxim
- LSI borged by Avago
- Broadcomm borged by Avago
- Spansion borged by Cypress
- ISSI borged by Summitview
- Silicon image borged by Lattice
- Renesas SP (division of renesas) borged by Synaptics
- Freescale borged by NXP
- Altera borged by Intel
- Micrel borged by Microchip

on the hunt :
TI
Microsoft

on the chopping block
IDT
AMD

Potential targets for takeovers
Xilinx
Atmel
Silicon Labs

[photon]

BOOM. another one...

The status so far

- Volterra borged by Maxim
- LSI borged by Avago
- Broadcomm borged by Avago
- Spansion borged by Cypress
- ISSI borged by Summitview
- Silicon image borged by Lattice
- Renesas SP (division of renesas) borged by Synaptics
- Freescale borged by NXP
- Altera borged by Intel
- Micrel borged by Microchip

on the hunt :
TI
Microsoft

on the chopping block
IDT
AMD

Potential targets for takeovers
Xilinx
Atmel
Silicon Labs

Good list. I would like to add to:

The Status so far:
  Emulex borged by Avago.
  PLX borged by Avago

Potential Targets for Takeover:
  Any fabless semiconductor company with revenue < $1B and good products/margins

[Mechanical Menace]

Potential Targets for Takeover:
  Any fabless semiconductor company with revenue < $1B and good products/margins

I'd throw ARM Holdings into that too.

[free_electron]

Nah  ARM is not up for grabs. that would be a disaster for the ecosystem.

emulex and plx are 'old' acquisitions ( older than mid last year )