市场研究机构IC Insights在2015年7月检视了在今年1~6月发生的IC产业大型并购(M&A)活动,发现光是今年上半年的半导体产业并购案总金额就高达726亿美元,是2010~2014年每年M&A平均交易金额的六倍。而加上不久前Dialog Semiconductor收购Atmel的案件,今年整体IC产业M&A交易规模已达到近770亿美元。下表是IC Insights所列出,2015年1~7月金额在1亿美元以上的半导体 IC Insights, a market research firm, reviewed the M & A activity of the IC industry from January to June this year in July 2015 and found that the total amount of mergers and acquisitions in the semiconductor industry was as high as 72.6 billion U.S. dollars in the first half of this year, ~ Six times the average amount of M & A transactions per year in 2014. Coupled with the recent acquisition of Atmel by Dialog Semiconductor, the overall IC industry M & A transaction this year has reached nearly 77 billion US dollars. The following table is a list of IC Insights, from January to July 2015 amounts to more than 100 million US dollars in semiconductors