NXP and Freescale merge into one company.
March 2, 2015 it became known that the company NXP Semiconductors acquires the company Freescale Semiconductor for $ 11.8 billion.
Let's discuss the significance of this event for the microelectronics market.
Combining NXP and Freescale into a single company will create the fourth largest manufacturer of processors and other complex microelectronics on the planet, with a total asset value reaching $ 40 billion, and with a total annual turnover of more than $ 10 billion - see: “NXP buys Freescale” , and “ NXP will be king of the roads. A Dutch microchip manufacturer buys Freescale for $ 11.8 billion. ”
Intel traditionally holds the first place on the market (annual turnover of ~ $ 53 billion), Qualcomm today takes the second place (~ $ 24 billion turnover), Texas Instruments takes the third place (~ $ 11 billion turnover), and the fourth place will be occupied by the combined NXP-Freescale (turnover ~ $ 10 billion).
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It should be noted that all three of the above major competitors of Intel, taken together by Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale have an annual turnover of ~ $ 45 billion (while their annual turnover is constantly increasing, while Intel is falling). And these three competitors produce processors on the ARM architecture , of course they all try to concentrate on different markets, but nevertheless it turns out that the ARM architecture is being marketed by three competitors (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale) having approximately equal annual turnover with Intel Corporation.
Also, by the number of ARM chips produced today, ARM architecture is in fact de facto becoming the main and main processor architecture in the modern processor market.
This can be judged from the fact that at the end of 2014, the total supply of smartphones reached 1.30 billion units compared to 1.02 billion in 2013 — see: “The total share of Android and iOS in the smartphone market exceeds 96% . ”
- Ie In the past two years, 2.32 billion smartphones have been sold, 90% of which contain an ARM chip inside.
Plus, in 2014, 229.6 million tablets were sold, and this market grew by 4.4% over the year compared with 2013, in which 219.9 million tablets were sold - see: “IDC: recorded for the first time in the tablet market recession . "
And out of all this number of tablets, 93% work on the Google Android OS and Apple iOS (essentially on ARM chips), and the share of Windows devices rose only from 4 to 7% over the year.
- Ie Again, over the past two years, 0.45 billion tablets have been sold, 90% of which contain an ARM chip inside.
As a result, we have only in the markets of smartphones and tablets ~ 2.5 billion pieces of ARM chips sold in the last two years.
Plus, chips are added for any multimedia, automotive, network, embedded, etc. technology, in 80% of cases, working all on the same ARM-architecture (although in these markets sometimes used MIPS-chips ).
And the profits from the huge market of ARM chips are largely shared by competitors from Intel (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale).
There is clearly a business problem for Intel over which its management should be thinking.
And of course, the microprocessor giant Intel is trying to do everything possible to get into this huge market of mobile gadgets - smartphones and tablets, and even the market of any built-in hardware. But Intel still can not take at least some significant share in these new-fangled markets (stubbornly promoting chips on its x86-architecture ) :(
That is why, fearing of losing to the competitors of the three listed above (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale), Intel already began cooperating with Chinese companies Rockchip and Spreadtrum in 2014, but it still hasn’t achieved a real result as a significant market share. just making plans for a lot of money - see: "Intel shared its plans to market SoFIA platforms for smartphones and tablets . "
But the dawn of a new huge market of robotics , computer vision and autonomous systems (the newly formed combined company NXP-Freescale is quite possible and aimed at ARM-chips can become a de facto standard!
For chips for the robotics market, computer vision and autonomous systems, see the articles:
1. "MWC 2015: Freescale introduced the chip for a trouble-free car" ;
2. "NVIDIA talked about cooperation with Google in the use of the Tegra K1 chip" ;
3. "Started the delivery of" supercomputer for embedded systems "NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . "
What do you think of it?
Let's discuss the significance of this event for the microelectronics market.
Combining NXP and Freescale into a single company will create the fourth largest manufacturer of processors and other complex microelectronics on the planet, with a total asset value reaching $ 40 billion, and with a total annual turnover of more than $ 10 billion - see: “NXP buys Freescale” , and “ NXP will be king of the roads. A Dutch microchip manufacturer buys Freescale for $ 11.8 billion. ”
Intel traditionally holds the first place on the market (annual turnover of ~ $ 53 billion), Qualcomm today takes the second place (~ $ 24 billion turnover), Texas Instruments takes the third place (~ $ 11 billion turnover), and the fourth place will be occupied by the combined NXP-Freescale (turnover ~ $ 10 billion).
')
It should be noted that all three of the above major competitors of Intel, taken together by Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale have an annual turnover of ~ $ 45 billion (while their annual turnover is constantly increasing, while Intel is falling). And these three competitors produce processors on the ARM architecture , of course they all try to concentrate on different markets, but nevertheless it turns out that the ARM architecture is being marketed by three competitors (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale) having approximately equal annual turnover with Intel Corporation.
Also, by the number of ARM chips produced today, ARM architecture is in fact de facto becoming the main and main processor architecture in the modern processor market.
This can be judged from the fact that at the end of 2014, the total supply of smartphones reached 1.30 billion units compared to 1.02 billion in 2013 — see: “The total share of Android and iOS in the smartphone market exceeds 96% . ”
- Ie In the past two years, 2.32 billion smartphones have been sold, 90% of which contain an ARM chip inside.
Plus, in 2014, 229.6 million tablets were sold, and this market grew by 4.4% over the year compared with 2013, in which 219.9 million tablets were sold - see: “IDC: recorded for the first time in the tablet market recession . "
And out of all this number of tablets, 93% work on the Google Android OS and Apple iOS (essentially on ARM chips), and the share of Windows devices rose only from 4 to 7% over the year.
- Ie Again, over the past two years, 0.45 billion tablets have been sold, 90% of which contain an ARM chip inside.
As a result, we have only in the markets of smartphones and tablets ~ 2.5 billion pieces of ARM chips sold in the last two years.
Plus, chips are added for any multimedia, automotive, network, embedded, etc. technology, in 80% of cases, working all on the same ARM-architecture (although in these markets sometimes used MIPS-chips ).
And the profits from the huge market of ARM chips are largely shared by competitors from Intel (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale).
There is clearly a business problem for Intel over which its management should be thinking.
And of course, the microprocessor giant Intel is trying to do everything possible to get into this huge market of mobile gadgets - smartphones and tablets, and even the market of any built-in hardware. But Intel still can not take at least some significant share in these new-fangled markets (stubbornly promoting chips on its x86-architecture ) :(
That is why, fearing of losing to the competitors of the three listed above (Qualcomm, TI and NXP-Freescale), Intel already began cooperating with Chinese companies Rockchip and Spreadtrum in 2014, but it still hasn’t achieved a real result as a significant market share. just making plans for a lot of money - see: "Intel shared its plans to market SoFIA platforms for smartphones and tablets . "
But the dawn of a new huge market of robotics , computer vision and autonomous systems (the newly formed combined company NXP-Freescale is quite possible and aimed at ARM-chips can become a de facto standard!
For chips for the robotics market, computer vision and autonomous systems, see the articles:
1. "MWC 2015: Freescale introduced the chip for a trouble-free car" ;
2. "NVIDIA talked about cooperation with Google in the use of the Tegra K1 chip" ;
3. "Started the delivery of" supercomputer for embedded systems "NVIDIA Jetson TK1 . "
What do you think of it?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/365189/
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