On September 29, the Wall Street journal first reported, qualcomm is grace wisdom to the Dutch semiconductor company pu (NXP Semiconductors), plans to more than $30 billion for the latter. According to the statistics of IC insights in the first half of this year's revenue ranking, NXP is the tenth largest semiconductor company in the world, above mediatek.

According to people familiar with the market may be in the next 2 to 3 months to achieve, but at the same time, the wisdom of pu are also looking for other buyers.

On October 4, according to bloomberg news reported that a deal is close to, qualcomm is the only buyer. The two sides on the price differences are not, um wisdom pu hope price is us $120 per share, and qualcomm psychological price at $110 a share. If the deal with U.S. stocks reached $11.5 billion, together with the debt, qualcomm need to pay $47 billion for purchase.

Two other potential buyers, Intel and Broadcom (Broadcom) are out. Last year, Intel last year to $16.7 billion for Altera semiconductor company; Mr Anwar technology (Avago) is paid $37 billion for broadcom. Now, they are still in the digestion of expensive mergers and acquisitions. Qualcomm has become the most appropriate buyers.

Grace wisdom pu semiconductor do?

Although was formally established in 2006, but is actually more long history of pu. More than half a century ago, in 1953, the Dutch Philips company established a special research and development of semiconductor branch Philips Semiconductors, this is the predecessor of pu. In the 1980 s, it has to make philips was the world's largest semiconductor maker.

In 2006, philips announced sale of its branches, semiconductor consortium of multiple investors in the Netherlands took over this plate, formally established the wisdom of pu.

Website according to the grace wisdom of pu, pu push Internet car, and Internet of things (IoT) intelligent security applications such as terminal market innovation. Its products are used in intelligent car, wireless architecture, lighting, industrial, action, consumer and computing products.

In March 2015, grace wisdom pu paid $11.8 billion for another company Freescale semiconductor (Freescale), the latter have spanned the MOTOROLA, in 2004 is separated out. After the completion of the acquisition of pu and freescale, its market capitalisation of more than $40 billion, and for the first time into the top ten semiconductor industry, became the world's largest automotive semiconductor suppliers. In the second quarter of 2016, grace wisdom pu operating income of $2.37 billion.

Another, according to lei feng tielui net writers think pu in mobile phone rf chip, identification and security also has profound technology accumulation, for example, millet 5 will carry a fully functional NFC scheme of pu and incidental launched support bus card payment and shopping MiPay etc. Function.

Qualcomm why buy er chi pu

As in the smartphone chip industry dominant position of qualcomm, why spend big acquisitions wisdom pu? In simple terms, this is qualcomm on the bet for the future.

Now, qualcomm is the world's third largest semiconductor manufacturers, after Intel and samsung. In samsung's incomes, the patent authorization and mobile phone chips is the most important source of income, qualcomm. Among them, although the licensing income is usually lower than the chip income, but it can contribute 6 into profits.

But now, qualcomm's two most important sources of income in which they are received. Last year, China's national development and reform commission issued to the qualcomm for the high price of 6 billion yuan ticket, at the same time, qualcomm for the Chinese handset makers licensing rates are lower, qualcomm bundling patent also been suspended, and China is contributing to qualcomm most income in the market.

In addition, qualcomm's rise because it defines the CDMA standards of 3 g era. The 4 g era, qualcomm has the absolute dominance of challenge has been received. In addition to licensing, mobile phone chip industry has a mediatek, samsung, huawei and other opponents. Under the global smartphone market saturation trends, qualcomm also want to looking for the next battle.

Internet cars, Internet of things, including the recent hot automatic driving, these are likely to be the next big thing in the field are strengths of pu, so, qualcomm is willing to undertake the bet.

Bloody in semiconductor industry

Finally, do a little science. Although relatively far distance and ordinary consumers, but the competition of the semiconductor industry is weaker than consumer electronics products. And, more often than not, the semiconductor industry investment huge, careless judge slightly in the future, even the first industry, also likely to suffer from the cruel fate. Here are a few examples:

Intel

At the beginning of the rise of smart mobile terminal equipment, Intel is who in the PC market scolds sold their mobile chip division. At that time, this is not a particularly big news, because this part of income only a fraction of Intel's revenues.

Hence, mobile terminal market, Intel is no longer the influence. But then, perhaps, nobody would have thought that the iPhone, smartphone will become the shipments, but Intel is proud of the PC market gradually cooling.

freescale

Was well chi pu freescale is another example of acquisition. The company once affiliated MOTOROLA, independence in 2004, with the help of his former influence in the field of consumer electronics, freescale orders received a large number of mobile phone chips.

But, after the iPhone, once the smartphone overlord MOTOROLA gradually marginalized, leading to freescale's mobile phone chip business is declining, desperately, freescale decided to completely out of mobile phone chip market. But who didn't know, a few years later, the smartphone market is ushered in the incredible leap forward.