The consolidation in the semiconductors/chip IP industry, thus far in 2015:<p>1. Intel-Altera: <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys-altera-for-16-7-billion-as-chip-deals-accelerate" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-01/intel-buys...</a><p>2. Avago-Broadcom (and earlier, Avago + LSI):
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/avago-said-near-deal-to-buy-wireless-chipmaker-broadcom" rel="nofollow">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-27/avago-said...</a><p>3. Silicon Imaging-Lattice:
<a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/lattice-to-buy-silicon-image-for-600-million-1422358580" rel="nofollow">http://www.wsj.com/articles/lattice-to-buy-silicon-image-for...</a><p>4. NXP-Freescale:
<a href="http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236" rel="nofollow">http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1327236</a><p>5. (2014) Cirrus-Wolfson:
<a href="http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322171" rel="nofollow">http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322171</a><p>6. Avago is further looking at Xilinx, Maxim, and Renesas: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-chipmakers-m-a-avago-idUSKBN0NZ27520150514" rel="nofollow">http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/14/us-chipmakers-m-a-...</a><p>This is one industry that is in flux ATM.<p>Edit: Further afield, though tightly coupled with this industry, on the manufacturing equipment side, Lam Research announced acquisition of KLA-Tencor today <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-firm-lam-research-to-buy-kla-tencor-1445419669" rel="nofollow">http://www.wsj.com/articles/semiconductor-firm-lam-research-...</a>