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Re:Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B by shas3 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:52PM (#10426680)
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...

2. Avago-Broadcom (and earlier, Avago + LSI): 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...

4. NXP-Freescale: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236

5. (2014) Cirrus-Wolfson: 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-...

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-...

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Re:Western Digital agrees to buy SanDisk for about $19B by normaldotcom on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @01:59PM (#10427214)
Another consolidation this year: Dialog is buying Atmel, although Atmel is fairly small compared to the other big players in the microcontroller market.
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