The name is inspired by the animal’s daring nature, according to chief technology officer Jeff Zhang. In recent times, Alibaba CEO Jack Ma has hinted at the need to temper over-dependence on U.S. companies for chips and instead focus on building technologies domestically.His comments came around the time the US Commerce Department precluded American companies from selling parts to Chinese tech firm ZTE that relied on US chipmakers for smartphones and telecommunications equipment manufacturing.    

Pre-market trading on Wednesday saw Intel stock decline by -0.6%. The semiconductor manufacturer has been plagued with chip-supply shortages in recent times.DigiTimes reported Monday that Intel’s overall 14-nanometer chip supply has fallen short of demand by as much as 50%, citing industry sources.

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. ‘s second quarter fiscal 2019 non-GAAP per-share earnings came in at 28 cents, which is -6.7% lower from the year-ago period.  Excluding the semiconductor manufacturing company’s acquisition of Cavium, earnings were 35 cents per share – an increase from the year ago period. Marvell’s revenues rose +9.9% year over year to $665 million, on the back of strong growth in networking and storage business. Looking ahead, the company expects its third-quarter fiscal 2019 revenues to be in the range of $825-$865 million, and projects Cavium’s businesses to contribute $210 million to revenues.  

This means that most PCs and Apple MacBooks will not be upgraded to the next models for more than a year since thy all will be waiting for new Intel 10-nanometer chip.  At the same time this Intel delay is good for Advanced Micro Devices which are currently attacking Intel server market with similar chips and has some new products coming out early in 2019 to compete with the latest Intel chips. AMD investors were so happy with Intel troubles that AMD stock jumped as high s +8% till settling to +3% by the end of the day.Obviously lack of new chip products from Intel made a lot investors very unexcited about the future of the company and they sold the stock with an 8% loss today.

Qualcomm's CEO Steve Mollenkopf had mentioned in Wednesday’s earnings call that if China did not approve, the company would walk away from the NXP deal. Qualcomm’s last bid for NXP was $44 billion.It also plans to buyback up to $30 billion worth of shares as promised to shareholders in the event of the deal’s demise. NXP announced that it’ll repurchase $5 billion of shares. While many people seem to be blaming the U.S.-China trade tensions as a major factor behind China’s rejection of the deal, the nation’s Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng mentioned, "This case is about the enforcement of antitrust laws.

But I never knew that they had many different products like Discrete Semiconductors, Programmable Logic ICs, Wireless & RF Integrated Circuits, and more.If you are looking to get some exposure in the semiconductor industry, these companies might be worth checking out! 

Broadcom LTD in its never-ending ambition to swallow as many companies as possible, made an offer to acquire a software company CA Inc for almost $19 billion in cash!Market does not like it…The stock is currently down 15%, and it might be worth looking at it.