Yesterday evening, the news that Ziguang teamed up with Wuhan Xinxin as a memory has caused a lot of hot debate in the industry. But no one thought that this morning, the semiconductor industry once again made a big news: ADI acquired Linear Technology for $ 14.8 billion.
The combined company's market value is close to 30 billion U.S. dollars, its annual turnover is close to 5 billion U.S. dollars, and it will surpass Infineon, second only to Texas Instruments, and become the world's second largest analog chip manufacturer. It is expected that this transaction will be completed in the first half of 2017.
ADI and Linear Technology's revenue ranked fourth and eighth respectively before acquisition
Linear Technology is an analog chip manufacturer. Its product lines include amplifiers, comparators, voltage references, monolithic filters, linear regulators, DC/DC converters, battery chargers, data converters, and communications interface circuits. , RF signal trimming circuit and so on. For many years, Linear Technology has been one of the world's most profitable semiconductor manufacturers.
ADI is an established chip company. It was founded in 1965 by two MIT graduates. The company's product line is almost identical to Linear Technology.
Insiders believe that the wave of mergers and acquisitions of digital chips has affected the field of analog chips. After dealing with ADI and Linear Technology, it may be that TI, who is heavily involved, has shot.
What is the difference between analog and digital chips?
In fact, many people understand the chip only on digital chips, such as CPUs, memory chips, MCUs, and DSPs. This is what Intel, Qualcomm, and Samsung are doing.
As the name suggests, the digital chip is the processed digital signal (ie, 0/1), which consists of multiple identical unit circuits and a control circuit or multiple control circuits.
Correspondingly, the analog chip deals with analog signals such as images, audio, voltage and current, etc. Its circuit consists of a number of different units. Like digital chips, this is an integral part of all kinds of electronic equipment. The world's major analog chip manufacturers include TI, Infineon, ADI and Linear Technology.
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