Various Semiconductor (On Semiconductor) announced the $2.4 billion acquisition fast Semiconductor (Fairchild), become a new Semiconductor industry mergers and acquisitions party guests, but the merger boom is likely to continue for a period of time, ti, qualcomm, purple light is may still waiting.

According to research firm Dealogic, so far in 2015, now has $120 billion semiconductor industry mergers and acquisitions amount, far higher than the years of record.

Given the merger is the lowest since 2005, the actual number of investors may speculate that the m&a boom will cool.

High number decrease on behalf of a single amount of mergers and acquisitions, has 14 deal amount more than $1 billion this year, including Mr Anwar technology to a record $37 billion acquisition of broadcom.

Dealogic data shows, the semiconductor industry is the average amount of mergers and acquisitions last year this year more than three times as much; This data suggests that mergers may has reached its peak, one reason is the giant of the industry will begin to digest the acquisition to the company.

However, there are still several mergers may be about to appear; Recent reports show that a month, Texas instruments and, semiconductor (Analog) are interested in mergers and acquisitions market capitalisation of $11.2 billion, mation semiconductor (Maxim.).

Qualcomm is also looking to make moves, the company hold $20 billion in cash, and needs to transfer to rely on smart phone modem chip, is now hiring stock market analysts responsible for mergers and acquisitions.

Citigroup in this week's report, the name has a market value of just over $12 billion (Xilinx) and the spirit of thoughts are buyers such as qualcomm attractive target.

Another deep pockets and eager to participate in the semiconductor industry mergers and acquisitions of buyers, is the Chinese mainland thunis group, group chairman wei-guo zhao told Reuters that it would spend $47 billion over the next five years to build the chip sector.

Purple light group reported this year to micron technology opened a $23 billion acquisition price.

Borrowing costs low m&a boom also contribute to the semiconductor industry, various net debt of about $850 million, $2.4 billion is expected to issue new debt financing for m&a; Even if the fed will raise interest rates, interest rates will remain at very low levels.