<story><title>Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B</title><url>https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1527/intel-to-acquire-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4-billion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lnsru</author><text>When reading headline I was thinking about Intel removing its competitor. Then I searched a bit and found this: 
“ Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is an Israeli company that manufactures integrated circuits using specialty process technologies, including SiGe, BiCMOS, SOI, mixed-signal and RFCMOS, CMOS image sensors, non-imaging sensors, power management, and non-volatile memory as well as MEMS capabilities.”&lt;p&gt;Looks like that Intel wants to go deeper in foundry business offering more services. I can speculate, that Intel has very good silicon process for logic circuits and will improve their offerings with technology from this acquisition. Sounds like a reasonable strategy to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B</title><url>https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1527/intel-to-acquire-tower-semiconductor-for-5-4-billion</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comboy</author><text>For anyone interested in the topic of semiconductors industry this channel provides some great info and explanations: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=GbkFAO1oUu8&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>