Acronym · Business & Market
M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)
The buying, selling and combining of companies or business units. In semiconductors it is the main route to portfolio breadth and scale, and is increasingly gated by multi-jurisdiction antitrust review.
- Also known as
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Type
- Acronym
- Domain
- Business & Market, Corporate finance
Notes
Chinese SAMR approval has become the practical bottleneck for large deals, as Qualcomm's abandoned NXP bid showed.
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