Mainland media reported, purple light group, the parent company of tsinghua holdings has been submitted to the U.S. official documents, confirmed that hold global storage chip giant Marvell (url). Marvell in the solid state disk (SSD) control chip with high market share, local involvement, will be to group Taiwan SSD control chip companies such as deepening.
Semiconductor corporation, points out that mainland fund related to memory storage industry with high interest, tsinghua holdings investment Marvell makes sense, because the tsinghua holdings for the purple light group parent company, purple light and active layout memory supply chain, if this time to determine the reinvestment Marvell, confirm the memory industry enthusiasm unabated.
Marvell was founded in 1995, is a silicon valley veteran semiconductor company, main products include solid state disk (SSD) storage applications such as chips, especially in the PC OEM parts have high share, at the same time across the cell phone chips and the CNC chip area.
It is understood that the current global SSD control chip market, in addition to samsung, such as meguiar's memory chip factory using own control chip, the rest of the OEM factory provided by marvell, group, such as hui rong also catch-up.
Market has spread, purple light interested in investment group, expanded memory business, but because of the Taiwan laws and regulations has not been to local investment I soften IC design industry, so not into office. Marvell, tsinghua holdings investment for marvell business similar to the group, the industry focus on whether the investment group, the purple lights will therefore reduced.
In addition, marvell after obtain local injections, the next is more bargaining chips, Taiwan manufacturers could also impact group, etc.
According to the Wall Street journal reported, tsinghua holdings has submitted to the commission of American federal trade (FTC) files, share holding company, although didn't explain the specific number of holdings, but according to the provisions of the antitrust review, must declare the threshold is $78.2 million, equivalent to more than 2.5 billion nt dollars, on behalf of tsinghua holdings investment amount is more than the water level. But Marvell is under federal investigation of its financial problems, founder and former CEO sehat sutardja Dai Weili have both resigned and President.