What will be the impact of the continuous merger and reorganization of the chip industry on automotive electronics?

[China intelligent manufacturing network intelligent manufacturing express] recently, Qualcomm, an American chip company, announced that it would acquire NXP, a Dutch chip giant, at a price of about 37 billion US dollars. This acquisition is called the second largest in the history of science and technology. In just a few years, chip companies have been continuously merging and reorganizing. What is the impact on the automotive electronics industry?

Let's take a look at several related M & A cases.

In June 2009, SiRF and CSR merged to form a single service provider providing connectivity and mobile platforms.

In March 2011, Qualcomm acquired Atheros, a Wi Fi wireless chip provider, for $3.2 billion.

In August 2013, MTK acquired MSTAR (Morningstar semiconductor), and two semiconductor giants in Taiwan merged.

In October 2014, Qualcomm announced a £ 1.56 billion ($2.5 billion) acquisition of csrplc, a UK connected chip specialist.

In February 2015, Freescale reached a merger agreement with NXP, with an overall market value of $40 billion. The acquisition was fully completed in the second half of 2015.

In the above cases, MTK and MSTAR are strong in the automotive aftermarket. After Qualcomm's acquisition of NXP, there is such an evolution. First, SiRF and CSR are merged, then Qualcomm acquires Atheros and CSR, then NXP and Freescale are merged, and then Qualcomm acquires NXP. Therefore, Qualcomm owns three major automotive chip enterprises, CSR, NXP and Freescale, and professional automotive chip manufacturers are basically under Qualcomm.

About CSR, NXP and Freescale

CSR is a British semiconductor manufacturer whose main product line is single chip Bluetooth chip. SiRF is a GPS chip manufacturer, SiRF. After the combination of SiRF and CSR, SiRF launched a super chip with Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS functions. In the age of WinCE, A3, A4, A5, A6 and prima once enjoyed a good reputation in the car market for some time. Until the appearance of Android operating system, CSR gradually faded out of the stage. Although CSR later launched csratlas7, and supported Carplay and mirrorlink, its main force was in the front market, and the market landscape after the car was no longer good.

NXP (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer, providing various semiconductor products and software, including mobile communication, consumer electronics, security applications, contactless payment and connection, as well as in car entertainment and network products, such as microcontrollers, RF, sensors, wireless (NFC), simulation and power supply. NXP has a high market position in automotive electronics, radio frequency, identity recognition and security, and has a strong influence in the field of V2V DSRC standards. NXP has a strong 32-bit armmcu product portfolio, with more than 400 MCU types, and uses the same LPC development kit, which is widely used in the automotive electronics field, such as gpcracker, Tbox, OBD and other products.

Freescale is an American semiconductor manufacturer focused on embedded processing solutions for the automotive, network, industrial and consumer electronics markets, offering technologies including microprocessors, microcontrollers, sensors, analog integrated circuits and connectivity. Some of Freescale's major applications and end markets include automotive safety, hybrid and all electric vehicles, next-generation wireless infrastructure, intelligent energy management, portable medical devices, consumer electronics, and intelligent mobile devices. The advantages of Freescale are MCU, DSP, arm application processor, qoriq multi-core processor and power processor. Freescale? The i.MX series has a strong competitiveness in the car audio-visual entertainment market. There are many fans in both the front and rear market, especially in the world's mainstream automobile manufacturers who use the Freescale i.MX application processor. After the merger of Freescale and NXP, it will narrow the gap with Reza in MCU and occupy the second place. In vehicle, it will undoubtedly become the world's largest automotive semiconductor manufacturer.

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