2012 chip market to grow 7%
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As large companies with cash in hand vie for competitive positions, mergers and acquisitions will continue to be trend, he said. A number took place in 2011 including: Qualcomm’s acquisition of Atheros, Texas Instruments buying National Semiconductor, Conexant falling to SMSC, Broadcom’s capture of Netlogic, CSR-Zoran and Microsemi-Zarlink. Also a number of startups were taken up in the recent past inluding Icera by Nvidia and Picochip by Mindspeed.
IDC reckons that 2011’s global chip market was worth $301 billion up 3.7 percent from 2010.
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