Tsinghua Unigroup's

[Jorge-Vieira]

Beginning of a new Chip giant

Tsinghua Unigroup's glorious five year plan
Move over Qualcomm there is a new chip giant in town and it will be number three in five years.

China's Tsinghua Unigroup has said it is investing $47 billion over the next five years in a bid to become the world's third-biggest chipmaker.
Chairman Zhao Weiguo said that the company controlled by Tsinghua University, which counts President Xi Jinping among its alumni, was in talks with a US-based company involved in the chip industry. This is probably Micron, although it is not clear how at this point.
A deal could be finalised as early as the end of this month, he said. He declined to give more details but said buying a majority stake was unlikely as it was too "sensitive" for the US government.
Zhao said that if you cannot be in the top-three giant, it is hard to develop your business in the chip industry. Beijing is keen to end China's reliance on foreign semiconductors as it seeks to build a modern, digitized armed forces capable of matching other advanced militaries.
China imported more chips than crude oil every year.

"The next five years is key... There is an enormous market out there," he said.

Qualcomm holds the No.3 position in the global chip rankings, behind Samsung and market leader Intel which has a market capitalization of $151.5 billion.
The sheer size of Tsinghua Unigroup's planned investments is almost equal to Intel's $50 billion chip revenue last year and could disrupt the NAND chip industry.
The top five chipmakers control more than 90 percent of the global NAND chip market after years of boom-and-bust squeezed out smaller players.
It has also attached strategic importance to the development of domestic semiconductor, server and networking equipment industries amid fears of foreign cyberspying.
Tsinghua Unigroup has spent more than $9.4 billion making acquisitions and investments at home and abroad over the past two years, including the purchase of stakes in US data storage company Western Digital and Taiwan's Powertech .

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/process...new-chip-giant


Mais um gigante a caminho para fazer frente aos três ou quatro grandes players deste mercado do fabrico de chips.

[Enzo]

Venha ele.

[Jorge-Vieira]

China gets its paws on another Taiwanese chipmaker

The little red chequebook opens
The Chinese government appears to be opening its little red chequebook and buying up chipmakers from what it calls its renegade province.

ChipMOS Technologies, which is a chip test and packaging company is the latest Taiwanese chipmaker to fall to the power of the workers' renminbi weilded by China's state-backed Tsinghua Unigroup.
Tsinghua will take a quarter stake in the outfit making it the third deal planned by the Chinese giant to enter into the island's chip supply chain. The deal comes on the heels of national elections that brought to power the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after eight years under the more China-friendly President Ma Ying-jeou.
The plan still has to win regulatory approval. President-elect Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP has indicated Chinese investments would come under more scrutiny in future.
Tsinghua Unigroup wants to invest $354.11 million in a quarter stake in ChipMOS Technologies, the two companies said last month.
The proposal is now expected to be submitted to Taiwanese regulators for review after the Lunar New Year holiday in mid-February and the review could take 2-4 months to complete.
ChipMOS needs the Chinese for a fresh fund injection which would go towards increasing ChipMOS' production, and research and development in Taiwan, as well as China expansion plans.
Powertech Technology , another Taiwanese chip test and packaging firm, approved a similar partial stake sale to the Chinese giant, while a third Taiwanese chip firm, Siliconware Precision Industries, has yet to take its plan to shareholder vote.

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/process...nese-chipmaker

[Enzo]

Estes meninos não andam a dormir, apesar de não termos ouvido falar muito neles. Os planos deles é serem pelo menos o terceiro maior fabricante de processadores do mundo, e com este passo, estão mais perto de o conseguirem. E deram nas vistas, tanto que a Intel ja investiu 1.5 biliões de dolares para investigação conjunta.