I’ve worked for Infineon and Fujitsu in the past, know some ppl in that field and i’m interested in it generally, so let’s sketch the Splits and Mergers of the recent past:
2000
Qualcomm
Infineon(Siemens)
2006 '---> Quimonda(-2009)
IFX Wireless
2007 LSI+Agere(Lucent)
2011 '---> Intel
AMD
Fujitsu Semi
2013 '---'---> Spansion
2014 '-----> Cypress
LSI -> Avago
2015 '------------------------->Socionext
NXP(Philips) <-- Freescale
2016 Microchip <-- Atmel
2019 <------------------------------------'