Not sure why we're looking for approval from the Chinese government for the merger of two American companies. I doubt the Chinese government would look for approval from anyone else for the same type of transaction between two Chinese companies.
AMD, Xilinx complete world's biggest semiconductor merger thanks to stock boom
AMD has officially taken over FPGA maker Xilinx in what is, thanks to rising share prices, the biggest acquisition in the history of the chip industry. The x86 processor giant completed the all-stock $49bn takeover of Xilinx on Monday. In 2020, AMD announced it had agreed to acquire the company in a deal back then worth $35bn …
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Tuesday 15th February 2022 09:58 GMT andrewmm
It had to happen
After Intel purchased Altera
it had to happen
The Altera take over went well ( NOT )
Altera are now well behind the curve, not least due to the silicon lab problems of Intel,
but also IMHO the way Intel do not understand the FPGA business,
From what I have seen so far,
AMD are at least not fab constrained,
but have already during the take over,
devastated the Xilinx support system,