The consolidation in the semiconductors/chip IP industry, thus far in 2015: 1. Intel-Altera: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys-alter

The consolidation in the semiconductors/chip IP industry, thus far in 2015: 1. Intel-Altera: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys-altera-for-16-7-billion-as-chip-deals-accelerate http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys... 2. Avago-Broadcom (and earlier, Avago + LSI): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/avago-said-near-deal-to-buy-wireless-chipmaker-broadcom http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/avago-said... 3. Silicon Imaging-Lattice: http://www.wsj.com/articles/lattice-to-buy-silicon-image-for-600-million-1422358580 http://www.wsj.com/articles/lattice-to-buy-silicon-image-for... 4. NXP-Freescale: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236 http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236 5. (2014) Cirrus-Wolfson: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322171 http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322171 6. Avago is further looking at Xilinx, Maxim, and Renesas: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-chipmakers-m-a-avago-idUSKBN0NZ27520150514 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-chipmakers-m-a-... This is one industry that is in flux ATM. Edit: Further afield, though tightly coupled with this industry, on the manufacturing equipment side, Lam Research announced acquisition of KLA-Tencor today http://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-firm-lam-research-to-buy-kla-tencor-1445419669 http://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-firm-lam-research-...