Finally implement, renesas issued a statement today, will be bought for $3.22 billion in cash price chip maker Intersil, this to the burgeoning global mergers and acquisitions and put on a thick sum of semiconductor. Occupy global automotive microcontrollers share 40% of renesas says, will complete the deal before June 2017.

Along with the computer and smartphone growth slows, the semiconductor industry to face the coming challenge, the rise of a wave of mergers and acquisitions, and direction of the product to return to with enormous room for growth, such as automotive electronics field.

, according to data from Gartner, by the end of 2015, renesas automotive electronic chip sales of $2.6 billion, the global share of 9.1%, after new NXP and infineon.

By car chip demand, renesas also announced the suspension of the original plan to sell/close kumamoto kam factory. Recently, renesas has announced it will close has been in the microwave (microwave) business profit, in the summer of 2018 is expected to officially stop production and supply of microwave components. In view of the decision to end the cause of the microwave components business, renesas explanation is: "although the business is profit, but we are not investing in the development of technology and products in recent years, and most of our microwave components products, will be further integrated into the system level chip (system LSI)."

Intersil, founded in 1967, its predecessor is HarrisCorporation, headquarters is located in silicon valley, California, USA, is a veteran of the leading companies design and manufacture of high performance analog semiconductors. Intersil in the wireless market, has a very advanced technology such as power semiconductor market.

Renesas, points out that Intersil mainly for industrial, automotive, aerospace and other focus on reliability and performance of the market, provide for the development of power control chip, analog chips/manufacture/sales and service, about $520 million in annual sales, profit rate of more than 20%.

And renesas listed as key business car chip area, because of the automatic driving, electric vehicles (EV), drive required for each vehicle carrying the chip number increase, also drives the Intersil held by the high reliability of chip demand higher, so the expectation by means of acquisition of Intersil improved vehicle chip business.

The deal agreed upon, also announced the Maxim of Intersil bid for failure.

According to reports, Maxim has been looking for a deal. But the Maxim itself has been in takeover rumors swirling, too.

"The acquisition of profits promote the effect will be very limited," one analyst said, "it depends on how renesas management Intersil, renesas is concerned the deal on a lot of value."

The nikkei report, global automotive chip market size of about 3 million yen, while the Dutch grace wisdom pu Semiconductor (NXP Semiconductors NV) in 2015 car maker Freescale Semiconductor (Freescale Semiconductor), Germany's infineon InfineonTechnologies (AG) and the 2015 acquisition of the company, make originally the global leading factory r SaYing closed fell to third, but after the acquisition of Intersil the renesas, its market share will surpass infineon, challenge pu.

In after the landmark 2015 semiconductor acquisition (semiconductor m&a scale as much as $2015 in 105 billion, including the chips, equipment and materials suppliers), IC Insights analyst Rob Lineback believes that the scale of the 2016 merger will record the second or the third levels.

He pointed out that no statistics renesas to Intersil potential takeover, worth $3 billion so far, 2016 years of semiconductor size scale is as high as $50 billion. Among the highest value to softbank ARM by the purchase of $32 billion in cash on Linear ADI $14.8 billion in cash and stock purchase is very representative. Lineback added.

Go through mergers and acquisitions in 2016, we will find a phenomenon, that is to buy more and more not aimed at the entire company, but from the perspective of the business, target-oriented.

"A lot of trade is in view of the product line, or according to the product operation, focusing on key direction, shed those who do not conform to the company's business development strategy." Lineback said. Many of which were acquired in 2015 in the "net".

One of the significant example is broadcom after being Avago to buy, to sell its wireless IoT business to Cypress. The NXP after m&a freescale, its standard products business stripping is another representative the acquisition.

MaxLinear, meanwhile, some are too busy to buy big mergers and acquisitions after stripping of the business, here refers to the MaxLinear acquired ghosn beauty of broadband wireless business and broadcom wireless infrastructure business.

As the acquisition of segmentation, which the company has what business, what the company departments most advantage becomes more and more complicated.

In order to help clarify the inter-linking relationship, small make up acquisition made a careful analysis of the recent, hope to be able to help you understand the current status of semiconductor:

Softbank's acquisition of ARM

This is the biggest deal so far this year, Japan's largest telecommunication operator of the world's most successful m&a IP supplier, after the acquisition to bring a huge shock to the semiconductor industry.

Softbank CEO masayoshi son always is famous for its long-term business vision of the world, relative to the investment ARM as a byproduct of softbank "barbaric" growth, masayoshi son more willing to put the ARM in the next three to ten years as its core business.

Actually before softbank in the ARM, ARM has expand its IP product line to car, image, computer vision, and other high growth markets.

Early in May this year, the ARM's $350 million acquisition of Apical company, which is to provide superior image and embedded computer vision IP familiar to the industry. Hope that through this acquisition ARM, for the next generation of cars, security systems, robots, mobile, consumer electronics, intelligent building and any image processing business to provide more IP.

ADI acquisition of Linear

In July this year, ADI, in the form of cash and stock, with $14.8 billion to buy a Linear rivals.

ADI President and CEO of the Vincent Roche called the deal "in is suitable for the right time in the simulation industry trade".

ADI and Linear is the world's top ten simulation chip suppliers, has a complementary product line between them, especially the strength of the Linear in terms of power management, stimulate the ADI offer for the Linear, a long-term semiconductor analysts told reporters.

In earlier in an interview, ADI CTO and senior VP Peter Real has pointed out, the power will become the focus of the industry.

Peter Real when it comes to both the prospect of the merger, cites an example, he believes that the future will be a software defined power supply, energy collection and filled with many more form IoT era of innovative applications. Their cooperation will jointly promote the wave.

In march of this year, before the acquisition, ADI also bought a Swiss firm called Snap Sensor SA company, which is focused on highly innovative visual Sensor technology. The acquisition to strengthen the ADI iot sensor product lineup.

Snap Sensor was established in 2011, the product is electronic and Switzerland for the micro technology center a eight years one of the products of the research results.

Atmel Microchip acquisitions

In January this year, the Microchip Technology and Atmel signed a purchase agreement, the agreement that will be the price of $8.15 a share acquisition of Atmel acquisition price is as high as $3.56 billion. The Atmel valuation is only $3.4 billion including debt.

The Atmel also received the uk-based Dialog and Cypress semiconductor offer, but finally in the arms the Microchip and terminate the negotiation and Dialog.

Microchip, which were also delivered last year to $839 million acquisition of the analog chips supplier Micrel.

Microchip's crazy purchase from the company's established policy. Chairman and CEO Steve Sanghi, once said: "the company, as always, adhere to the acquisition and merger and acquisition strategy, this will greatly enhance the company's revenue, the income growth can't be matched by is the company independent development of the past few years".

Chinese consortium to build wide capital acquisition NXP standard products business

Dutch NXP semiconductor company in June to its standard products sold for $2.75 billion to the Chinese consortium building capital.

NXP standard products division mainly provides a similar logic devices, MOSFET and other discrete component. In 2015, the department of revenue of $1.2 billion, Fried NXP one 5 of the total income.

These transfer include the front of the fabs, covers the UK Manchester and Hamburg, Germany's factory. And China, Malaysia and the Philippines backend equipment in guangdong.

According to market watchers said, NXP later will be more focused on automotive electronics business.

Infineon buy Cree Wolfspeed

July, infineon announced a $850 million acquisition of Cree Wolfspeed and rf power department. This is a typical example of semiconductor company acquisition precision department.

For infineon, this is a very attractive deal, because he can get through the acquisition of Wolfspeed silicon carbide wafer substrate.

Wolfspeed located in research triangle park, north Carolina for the past nearly 30 years has been a Cree company, is the power device and carborundum base gallium nitride one of the major suppliers of rf power solutions.

Including silicon carbide wafer substrate manufacturing its core competitiveness, and to radio frequency power devices, including single crystal gallium nitride layer of silicon carbide wafer substrate manufacturing. These core competitiveness, plus more than 500 skilled employees, and includes about 2000 items have been awarded or is applying for patent of strong intellectual property portfolio, can be obtained with infineon acquisition at the beginning of 2015 the international rectifier company technology and form good complementary resources. Wolfspeed based on silicon carbide product portfolio is an ideal complement to infineon product portfolio.

Yole Developpement. Observers Pierric Gueguen also points out that through the acquisition, infineon has a lot of SiC device manufacturing process, as the process of market leader. He also argues that in the next time, infineon will continue to follow SiC business acquisitions, to consolidate its market position. In the new era, such as 5 g this has important position.

A new generation of cellular infrastructure such as 5 g formats will use up to 80 GHz frequency. Only advanced compound semiconductor devices will be able to achieve the required under such a high frequency efficiency. Silicon-based gallium nitride devices support higher component integration, under the working frequency of up to 10 GHz have obvious advantages. Silicon carbide base of gallium nitride devices can be as high as 80 GHz frequencies to achieve maximum efficiency. Two kinds of technology for a new generation of cellular infrastructure systems are very important. Combined with its own silicon LDMOS products, after the acquisition of Wolfspeed infineon will become the industry the most wide range of rf power components suppliers.

The acquisition will boost infineon's strategy of "products to the system". In addition, infineon can speed up the first target market, including electric transportation, high-end photovoltaic inverter, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, cellular infrastructure radio frequency power components, etc. - the process of using silicon carbide and gallium nitride components.

Cypress semiconductor purchase broadcom wireless IoT business

Another business acquisition of example is the Cypress semiconductor purchase broadcom IoT department, in this year, the $550 million acquisition of the latter.

Through this deal, Cypress won the broadcom WIFI, bluetooth, and Zigbee IoT product lines and business, including the broadcom WICED brand and the developer ecosystem.

From before and Cypress IoT business director Stephen DiFranco (from Po through) we learn that, in an interview after the Cypress IoT business will tend to be dominated by the team of broadcom. Team includes 450 new employees and Cypress from Po by iot business department of the original 50 members (Cypress a total of 7000 employees).

But the Cypress new Internet business department has so far failed to enact its latest iot roadmap.

The overlapping part of the new sales department is the Cypress itself bluetooth business. Broadcom bluetooth team itself with 40 nm technology process of BLE and WIFI chip, and has 28 nm in the development process of related products.

Although the broadcom bluetooth and WIFI chip unit have been sold to the Cypress, still have these wireless chips but broadcom related patents. "Cypress is only authorized to produce wireless chips", DiFranco said. Broadcom still has the right to use the wireless technology in the set-top box, wireless access points, PC and tablet, DiFranco added.

SONY's acquisition of the Altair semiconductors

Japan's SONY bought a $212 million of Israel's private Altair semiconductor company, which specializes in LTE chipset.

The deal released an obvious signal, that is to develop a new type of SONY, sensor based on cellular links very interested.

Altair claimed that they LET chipset is connected to the world's hundreds of millions of devices. The company in the future will also by providing LTE chipset to attack the Internet market, it will also be another profit growth point.

With the Altair's technology, SONY will be able to provide both with the function of sensing and communication devices, it will be a new type of LTE solution.

The Chinese consortium to buy Exar Integrated Memory Logic Limited (on iML)

In June, analog and mixed signal chip suppliers Exar announced that its power management and monitor IC design business Integrated Memory Logic Limited (on iML) consortium sell for $136 million to China, it is important to note that on iML headed home to Taiwan as the first listed shares, F in 2014 sold to Exar, now changed hands again.

On IML for display and LED lighting power management IC and color correction.

The acquirer includes a set of the north and Beijing E - Town international investment and development co., LTD., the deal is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Set the northern CEO zhang fang said that the acquisition will bring them a world class design team, and to bring a highly differentiated to set a north of analog, mixed signal and power management chip product line. The acquisition will also add to the set and the global exposure to the north, zhang fang added.

After stripping on IML, let EXAR can focus on the development of analog and mixed signal products, at the same time can reduce the operating costs.

Takeover on IML embodies the Chinese to build domestic semiconductor industry chain, open to buy another new chapter of semiconductor companies in the United States.

Rambus acquire Inphi memory Internet business

IP licensees Rambus announced in July, for $90 million cash takeover Inphi memory interconnection of business of the company, the deal covers product inventory, customer relations, supply chain protocol and IP.

RAMBUS claims that the deal will strengthen their memory buffer products in the leading position, at the same time in the future application on the server and data center of nonvolatile storage, enhance their initiative.

MaxLiner acquisition broadcom wireless infrastructure business

MaxLinear in July of this year at a cost of $80 million for broadcom wireless infrastructure business, a deal involving the baseband and rf echo technology and about 120 employees.

Broadcom focus the team on the microwave and millimeter wave and 5 g market, is a focus of cable and satellite broadband communication MaxLinear best added. Is connected to the family, data center, the metropolis, long-distance optical fiber communication and wireless infrastructure.

This is the second big acquisitions, MaxLinear this year on April 28th, he also acquired ghosn beauty line access wireless infrastructure.

These acquisitions and MaxLinear itself in the accumulation of RF, can enhance MaxLinear influence in the field of wireless infrastructure, Kishore Seendripu chairman and CEO said.

ST the AMS NFC and RFID departments

In July, ST announced in 77.8 million for AMS NFC and RFID business department, the acquisition is able to enter into a clause based on business performance.

Actually ST is also considered in the market which are the subject of a takeover, this acquisition is also expanding the product line of ST.

Through the acquisition, ST received AMS in the NFC and RFID IP, technology, products and business contacts. ST has claimed that the acquisition is they use in mobile devices, wearable, industrial equipment, automotive electronics and the Internet of things in the market for security microcontrollers industry business a good supplement.

AMS has developed a controller under the ST brand is out of print, it's a covers from ST NFC controller security components and products.

Smic's stake in Lfoundry

In June, Chinese foundries smic announced the acquisition of European fabs Lfoundry 70% stake, the transaction amount is $55 million.

China's largest fabs SMIC has several quarters are full of production line work, this is an important reason of the deal.

However, SMIC chief executive said they hope that through the acquisition expansion of SMIC European and Chinese influence in the industry and auto bearing. He also said that through this acquisition, can rapidly improve SMIC capacity, meet customer demand, the semiconductor market and can quickly into the car.

Lfoundry have 40000 pieces of 8 inch wafer production capacity per month, but they are now the production line of utilization rate is only 60%. The acquisition will give SMIC space to decorate the 0.13 micron copper process production line.

SMIC's chief executive also said that after Lfoundry become a subsidiary of the SMIC, hope Lfoundry and beauty of the majority and anson cooperation can continue.

Magnum semiconductor GigOptix acquisitions

GigOptix in April this year, in the form of cash and stock bought Magnum semiconductor, the deal amounted to $55 million. GigOptix company for cloud connection, data center, high-speed optical fiber and wireless networks to provide leading semiconductor during connection.

While the private ownership of Magnum semiconductor for professional video broadcasting and IoT provide silicon chips, SoC, software and IP camera.

The day after the deal happens, renamed GigPeak GigOptix company.

MaxLinear Microsemi broadband wireless acquisition

MaxLinear bought beautiful Gao Senmei in May of broadband wireless business, it is worth mentioning that the business is also beautiful Gao Senmei when PMC - Sierra. The acquisition spent about 21 million dollars.

In the whole communication industry to 5 g architecture migration period, high bandwidth wireless RF frequency increased the complexity of the wireless access technology. MaxLinear and ghosn beauty business this time is to get the technology of wireless infrastructure market, including the wideband RF receiver to 5 g and 3 g, 4 g, and cellular base station remote radio platform in the process of transfer.

Kishore, the CEO of MaxLinear Seendripu said, we are looking forward to coming in 5 g can grab more market share.

Beauty is Gao Senmei and MaxLinear cooperation, in order to the fusion of low power consumption, digital CMOS and ability of mixed signal, radio frequency make high diversity, leading solutions, to cope with the upcoming of the wireless market challenges.

In fact, the deal is seen as not make Mr Yao before purchase PMC - a by-product of the Sierra.

In march, the United States Gao Senmei board level System business writer sold $300 million to Mercury System.

Murata buy SONY industrial battery department

SONY in July to sell most of its battery business to murata, making club. The deal involving the SONY energy equipment, China and Singapore's manufacturing plants, key battery patents and researchers, but does not include SONY USB batteries, button batteries and alkaline batteries.

Earlier in and MURATA VP Norio Nakajima, in an interview he disclosed, MURATA, just care about its industrial power application in the deal, which includes, power grid reach the portable power supply and standby power of data centers, etc.

Industrial power supply for high power and life are in high demand, this let murata opportunity to its multi-layer relay to join them.

Wurth buy Amber Wireless

Components suppliers Wurth Elektronik eiSos offer GmbH & Co. KG deals in August for the Amber Wireless GmbH, specific price were not disclosed.

Amber Wireless GmbH was founded in 1998, specifically for Wireless data link research and production from the RF module, in addition, also includes the home automation and instrument measurement scheme.

The deal extends the Wurth growing in the field of product line. Such as the Internet of things, industrial 4.0 sign and smart submission.

Amber with 169 MHZ, 433 MHZ, 868 MHZ, 915 MHZ and 2.4 GHZ wireless products, can be widely used in wireless sensor network, Internet of tracking, telemetry, logistics, property, smart mark whatever, medical technology, security system and intelligent home, industrial and building automation and other fields.

GreenPeak Qorvo acquisitions

Qorvo RFMC and superior semiconductor merger in 2014 set up a company, they have deep research in the field of radio frequency. In April this year, they announced the acquisition of focus on the short distance wireless chip design fabless GreenPeak.

GreenPeak is Xanadu Wireles and Ubiwave combined together, the development and application of them in the family and the Internet of things of Zigbee and bluetooth chip.

GreenPeak will be divided into Qorvo infrastructure and defense products, founder and CEO of the department will be GreenPeak Cees Links, leadership.

The deal that Qorvo can cut into the home network and IoT market, and the specific product is up to the standard of IEEE 802.15.4 Zigbee and BLE chips. According to the market forecast, the size of the market of these products to grow to $2.3 billion by the year 2020.