Merger Mania
August 8, 2016
At the recent GSA Silicon Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, the keynote was given by Wally Rhines on consolidation in the semiconductor industry, titled "Merger Mania." He started off by pointing out that the number of recent mergers is not unusual, but the size of the mergers is. There were $160B of mergers and acquisitions last year, including Intel-Altera, Avago-Broadcom and NXP-Freescale. Plus, although it hadn't happened by the time of the presentation, ADI/Linear
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