According to Reuters News, the sensation of the incomplete NXP (the top ten semiconductor companies in the world, headquarters in the Netherlands) acquisition, with the latest progress: In order to win the approval of the EU anti-monopoly sector, Qualcom has made concessions.
Informed people said that Qualcomm made is that the necessary patents for the acquisition of NXP in the transaction. Qualcomm told the EU committee, and NXP can sell these patents to other buyers.
In addition, Qualcomm also agreed that unless the third party related to NXP Near Field Communication (NFC) patent is filed unless to the defending purpose; Qualcomm is more allowed to collaborate with NXP products. Previously, NXP and other companies invented NFC chips, allowing users to use mobile phones to pay, store and exchange data.
Qualcomm announced in October last year to acquire NXP semiconductor company with $ 38 billion. This news has triggered a hot discussion in the industry because it is the largest acquisition in the global semiconductor market. Because NXP is currently the world's largest automotive chip supplier, there is an analysis that Qualcomm acquires NXP mainly plan to expand to the car chip market, and achieve industry leaders in the mobile, automobile, Internet of Things, safety, radio frequency, network. status. In other words, completing the acquisition of NXP, the greatest benefit of Qualcomm is to diversify its business model.
NXP semiconductor is a Philips semiconductor, providing semiconductor, system and software solutions, more than 25,000 customers worldwide. In March 2015, NXP has acquired another semiconductor giant Freescale in $ 11.8 billion, ranking among the top ten semiconductor manufacturers in the world.
According to the analysis, Qualcomm and NXP merged entities will make more challenging in Broadcom, Penang (ARM) and ANALOG DEVICES. Qualcomm said that after the merger of two companies, the annual income will exceed $ 30 billion, and the service market value will reach $ 138 billion in 2020.
In response to this M & A, Gao Tong CEO Mollenkov has been said before, "I don't think that NXP will bring huge changes in the strategy; acquisition NXP is just the acceleration of Qualcomm strategy. It will speed up our development The market provides strategic ability. In the automotive field, we will get all the business we lack, and make up for some short boards. In terms of the Internet and security, the real problem is how we can sell multiple customers at the same time. product."
Despite this, in this acquisition, one of Qualcomm faced in the EU review challenge. Although this acquisition trading has been approved by the US anti-monopoly regulatory authority, because NXP is an EU manufacturer, this consolidation has caused concerns about the EU.
The EU committee is worried that Qualcomm and NXP merge may provide incentive measures to customers to buy bundled products, thus squeezing the opponent, or changing the intellectual property authority of NXP. Since June, the EU Executive Committee (EC) has to form a competitor to eliminate other chips, resulting in rising prices, reducing the monopoly opises such as semiconductor industry innovation for in-depth investigation.
In addition to the concerns of the EU, Qualcomm and M & A, Hysteak, another challenge, is the shareholders of NXP's shareholders hope to reform the sale terms, and believe that Qualcomm reached the purchase price of 110 US cash per share, it is a serious low estimation. .
On October 9, according to the European Commission said on the official website, Qualcomm has submitted the proposal on October 5 to make concessions for the Acquisition Terms, but did not disclose detailed information. The European Commission tells Qualcomm opponents and customers, providing feedback from Qualcomm's proposal before this weekend. If the feedback information provided by the opponent is negative, the European Commission may require a higher pass to make more concessions.
In recent years, the global chip market has frequently handled more. In May 2015, Avago spent 37 billion US dollars to win Broadcom; June 2016, Intel was swallowed with a programmable logic chip giant ALTERA at $ 16.7 billion; in September 2016, Japan Softbank got ARM at £ 24 billion. For a long time, Dell even ate data storage company EMC at $ 60 billion.
Under the two major challenges described above, this is a timely M & A case last year, which has enveloped a layer of uncertainty. However, Qualcomm is making a concession, trying to solve two major obstacles to the M & A case. If Qualcomm is controversible in the industry, another challenge: Improving the purchase price is not too difficult to Qualcomm, after all, the problem of money can solve, Mollenkov completed the acquisition of the M & A in the end of the year. May implement.
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