This year the international semiconductor industry continues to spread heavyweight merger, named the Asian mobile phone market leader MediaTek chip graphics chip maker intends to merge Huida (Nvidia), teamed up to get into the car market. MediaTek yesterday (30) days from not comment on rumors.
Legal view, in car networking architecture, the application processor (AP), communication graphics processor and the number used to transmit data, WiFi, etc. are necessary, if MediaTek can Huida whole and will have a complementary effect.
This year, the global semiconductor has been incidents NXP (NXP) to $ 17 billion to buy Freescale (Freescale), by the end of May Avago (Avago) in cash and another $ 37 billion of convertible total price Qujin Broadcom (Broadcom ) $ 37 billion, in June spent $ 16.7 billion, Intel and Altera (Altera).
In the next wave of consolidation in the semiconductor industry, including touch-chip factory Atmel, FPGA factory Lattice (Lattice), memory chip plant Marvell (Marvell) were reported does not rule out industrial integration; wherein Lattice more directly named themselves with Qualcomm and MediaTek was "match."
Market also started the next possible merger, expand named, in addition to those already named possible and Intel Qualcomm, legal circles recently came MediaTek may Huida cooperation or mergers and acquisitions, and work to get into the car market.
Legal circles spread, MediaTek has been ranked the leading Asian mobile phone chips, coupled with the smart phone market gradually into the plateau, so the next stage of targeting things in the field, especially in high-priced, high-margin, high-threshold vehicle market, as the card Bit focus, so fancy has successfully entered the automotive market Huida graphics chip maker, intends to get married.
Although MediaTek chip itself also has car factory - hair, active distribution of automotive market, but because the car is longer with the certification of the market, and has been dominated by European and American firms, at most only eat Asian manufacturers after-sales service market, It is deemed necessary by the entire legal circles and expand combat.
Huida cut car market this year to see results, in addition has launched Nvidia DRIVE car computers, providing navigation, communications and entertainment system resources, digital instrument cluster and driving monitoring required advanced computer graphics and visual features, has also launched a new generation of super chip Tegra X1 processor.