[sidi network news] mergers and acquisitions in succession, heavy news, chip industry is not quite calm recently. In March, NXP, the semiconductor company, agreed to buy Freescale, a peer, for $11.8bn.

First, integrated circuit has become a mature industry, industry concentration is getting higher and higher

At present, SMIC's most advanced mass production technology falls in the 40nm process, while the world's most advanced foundry technology will step into the 16/14nm process.

Intel and Altera have been on and off several times since the news of their acquisition. The stock I bought went up $5, and I rewarded myself with a McDonald's meal, but that information might have been more valuable to pre-acquisition Altera.