Why settle for 1,000 chip companies when you can have 10,000?
Why settle for 1,000 chip companies when you can have 10,000? – The overwhelming majority of these companies will fade away, but a few will end up mattering a lot.
Category Archives: China
Nvidia for Arm – the view from China
Nvidia for Arm – the view from China – Put simply, it is going to be very hard for Nvidia to get deal approval in China. Not impossible, but considerably long odds.
Nvida to Acquire Arm – first impressions
Nvidia for Arm first impressions – Softbank almost doubles its money in 3 years, Arm execs get $1.5b, RISC-V gets a huge boost. Nvidia can use its stock to buy an important asset, but a lot could go wrong – customers/competitors regulators, and China.
Who benefits from Huawei’s predicament?
Who benefits from Huawei’s predicament? – Foreign and domestics competitors win, foreign suppliers see little change, customers lose a supplier, but the biggest losers are China’s aspiring component vendors.
What will happen to Huawei?
What will happen to Huawei? Huawei now has very few options, and no good ones, for obtaining most of its key components.
Quest for Fire
Quest for Fire – It is natural for companies to seek to acquire new technologies and IP, but in China, the State has taken an ever heavier hand in making this an organized, coordinated process.
Trouble at Intel
Trouble at Intel – Intel’s delay of 7nm chips is a near-term financial problem, a boon to its data center competitor, a geopolitical problem and not least a major identity crisis for the company.
China RF Semis
China has about a dozen RF chip companies, competing at the low end of the market. Ultimately, they will consolidate, but the question is how many will survive and become global players. This pattern likely applies to all of China’s 1,300 chip companies.
Arm for sale?
Arm for sale? Arm could probably benefit from new owners, but faces some big strategic challenges that need to be addressed soon.
And then there were ten
Yesterday’s big news was the combination of Analog Devices and Maxim, two of the largest analog chip makers left in the US. We have been commenting on the consolidation among […]
