Recently, tsinghua holdings disclosed to the United States has held silicon valley chip giant Marvell Tech (MRVL) unspecified amount of shares, which recently because of accounting research, and other issues to replace the leadership, with analysts' expectations, Marvell and change management team may be paving the way for selling the company.
Tsinghua holdings is on May 6, submit documents to the federal trade commission, that hold shares in the company because the federal trade commission according to the regulation of antitrust law, as long as there is a certain size of transactions, you must declare; For after the antitrust review of merger and acquisition proposal, federal committee requires notifiable transactions threshold of $78.2 million.
Marvell spokesman replies, it is unclear whether the equity of tsinghua holdings amount, but he points out that as far as the company know, tsinghua holdings stake purpose is for investment.
Early in January of this year's davos world economic BBS, tsinghua holdings chairman Xu Jinghong said, said tsinghua holdings will buy two semiconductor manufacturing company, which is expected to tsinghua holdings with support from the government will invest 200 billion yuan in 2016, used in mergers and acquisitions.
If buy Marvell smoothly, global storage industry pattern will be different because of the purple light a series of mergers and acquisitions. In response, the industry believes that with the development of things, "the global storage industry is to make way for the Chinese".
In fact, especially the thunis tsinghua holdings company already open large overseas m&a model, even for a few famous deals.
Thunis last year was to be a company merger and acquisition memory for $23 billion micron, but given the legislature may be to stop, so forget about it. In February this year, the United States by the foreign investment commission investigation, purple light abandon originally WD (Western Digital) $3.78 billion acquisition.
In April this year, investment thunis again to Lattice Semiconductor, scored 6% stake, to this, thunis, on the open market to achieve equity just pure investment purposes, and according to thunis on May 6, according to documents submitted to the securities and exchange commission thunis Lattice Semiconductor equity stakes rose to 8.65%.
Respectively and thunis, as early as in 2015, is a stake in Rio to science and technology, acquired 25% south alum, taking a stake in silicon 24% stake, analysts told kilter finance, if the successful acquisition of Marvell, purple light complete map will be into shape of semiconductor industry.
Tsinghua holdings in a plate of chess, besides have been actively buying chip industry chain upstream and downstream firms, has invested 30 billion yuan, the development of mobile phone chip technology, the goal is to direct and qualcomm giants such as challenge. Purple light group chairman wei-guo zhao has publicly to aim at world-class chip giant. Purple light inside is put forward "five years win the global mobile phone chip market share".
Semiconductor industry have a keen interest in China to the United States, since 2014 China published semiconductor development outline, improve chip self-making ratio, reduce import proportion chip is a national policy. At present, with the official color of tsinghua holdings, is China's most active companies in overseas investment in the company.
As the layout of the forming, violet light has become the most complete service coverage in the domestic IT industry chain of the manufacturers, have end-to-end IT services capabilities, a comprehensive data center solutions, and business strategy consulting capacity of manufacturers. Whether local companies such as huawei, lenovo, and even international manufacturers such as IBM, EMC, are hard to match with the product line.
