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Recently, SK Hynix responded to the acquisition of ARM rumors: it is studying a variety of strategic plans, but has not yet advanced the joint acquisition. Previously, SK Hynix said it was reviewing various strategic options, including the joint acquisition of ARM, to improve business competitiveness and enterprise value. As a leading chip manufacturer, Hynix has completed an acquisition project of 576 billion won, but in the end, ARM was still abandoned by SK Hynix due to the high asking price .
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As early as April 2022, SK Hynix was rumored to form a group to acquire ARM. According to the Korea Economic Daily at the time, Park Jong-ho, vice chairman of SK Hynix, said that he was considering forming a consortium with a consortium to acquire ARM, a British semiconductor design company. However, most people believed that ARM has no shortage of buyers. Even if SK stopped promoting the joint acquisition, NVIDIA could not acquire ARM due to anti-monopoly issues, but other manufacturers would still try to acquire ARM. On October 5, 2022, Sun Zhengyi was revealed to have gone to South Korea. Samsung and SK consortium may bid for ARM. Samsung and Softbank are both difficult to combine. How deep is the "water" of the ARM acquisition war? SK Hynix will pay the remaining USD 2 billion to acquire the remaining related tangible/intangible assets from Intel, including intellectual property rights related to the production and design of NAND flash memory wafers, R&D personnel, and is expected to be delivered in March 2025 or later. . This is a major acquisition for 2021-2022.
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Synopsys, which is also in the field of IC design, announced that the Samsung fab has successfully achieved multiple test tapeouts, improving 3nm mobile, HPC and AI chip design PPA. During this process, Synopsys joined hands with Samsung to complete the design finalization of the gate-all-around transistor SoC. According to reports, Samsung's 3nm process uses the GAA architecture, which is better than TSMC's 3nm FinFET architecture. According to other reports, Samsung has announced that its 3nm process technology has been officially taped out. Synopsys' partnership with Samsung has accelerated the rollout of transformative 3-nanometer GAA technology.
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In the field of IC design, in addition to Synopsys and Samsung, it belongs to ARM. ARM UK is the world's leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP). More than 95% of smartphones and tablets worldwide use the ARM architecture. ARM has designed a large number of RISC processors, related technologies and software with high cost performance and low energy consumption. However, this time ARM was acquired at an excessively high price, which led to a decrease in attractiveness. Industry insiders had long expected that Samsung Electronics could not be acquired by SK Hynix.
