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You may already have heard today's big news in the semiconductor fabless ecosystem that Intel is apparently in talks to buy Altera. I embarrassed myself predicting that Samsung were in talks to buy Freescale (which, of course, they might have been but NXP won that particular race). But this time it is definite enough that the WSJ covered it too. Altera had a market cap of $10.4B so this is a big acquisition, up there with the aforementioned NXP/Freescale merger.

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