Five years in the semiconductor industry mergers and acquisitions will replace Intel Samsung crazy

Days ago, the famous American semiconductor media news and analysis SiliconStrategies released the 2010 Top 10 global semiconductor manufacturers sales ranking prediction, and that in the next five years, the global semiconductor industry will turn the world upside down changes, Samsung will replace Intel's chip leader position, SMIC has the potential to become the world's eighth largest chip manufacturer. It believes, Samsung will become the new ruler of the world semiconductor, TSMC and UMC are likely to merge in 2010, Intel will become not so important, AMD-IBM-Chartered will also appear big merger, the merger between Toshiba Co - Renesas will appear in Japan in 2005, ST will merge with Freescale, Philips Infineon and Micron will be combined, in Chinese, SMIC and grand force semiconductor industry will become a generator, TI and ADI will also come together, Broadcom and Qualcomm may be merged into fabless giant.