Nowadays it is more and more difficult to remain a memory manufacturer . Lithography technology becoming more expensive and more complicated, in the development of new memory types have to invest huge amounts of money with no guarantee of return in the future, memory prices vary greatly, and the rate of return on the market is low. The acquisition of Elpida assets by Micron has proved that without the consolidation of memory manufacturers increasingly difficult to survive.
Bloomberg citing an informed source now reports that Micron company becomes a takeover target - interest in cooperation, at least openly declares Chinese Tsinghua Unigroup. It is expected that the Chinese pay for Micron about $ 23 billion. - About $ 21 per share. Of course, against the background of rumors Micron commented only the lack of formal proposals from Tsinghua Unigroup, the stock price memory products grew by 19%.
Chinese authorities would not prevent the transaction, but the US may approve it with difficulty, since Micron is the fifth largest revenue producer of semiconductor products in the world, and at least a partial loss of control of the company may be contrary to the national interests of the United States, especially on the background of the current complicated geopolitical situation. If the deal goes through, it will be the largest in the history of China among those that involve the purchase of foreign assets.