1 from a huge major manufacturers of microchips Intel Corporation intends to acquire its own main rival - concern Altera.

This transaction can be a major in history and will continue its rapid consolidation in the semiconductor industry. Prior contract sum may be 13.4 billion.

Edition of the Wall Street Journal 1 wrote about a possible deal, then the price of the shares of Altera went up and reached 44,39 dollars apiece, which is 28% more than the day before. As a result, the market capitalization of chipmaker rose to 13.4 billion dollars. Securities Intel rose by 6.4 %, while the price of the company increased to of 151.6 billion.

Altera based in California, is considered one of the main creators of the ASIC, a programmable logic integrated circuits. They are widely used in telephone networks, networks, computer equipment, automobiles and other products. Intel and Altera worked together in the past. In 2013, on our own capacities 2nd wanted to help 1 to get new markets.

Note that in 2014 Altera made an operating profit of 543,4 million dollars in the salvation of 1.93 billion compared to 55.9 billion of sales at Intel. As specialists, we are told, the acquisition of Altera may become the most expensive purchase of Intel in its history.

Real-time greatest acquisition for Intel to buy the antivirus software maker McAfee for 7.7 billion in 2011. In the current quarter was signed by a large M
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