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Comment: AMD-Xilinx deal may raise questions if China narrows focus down to FPGAs

By Yonnex Li ( November 20, 2020, 05:44 GMT | Comment) -- As is often the case with deals of this kind, the question of whether the combination of US chipmakers AMD and Xilinx will raise concerns in China depends on how narrowly the merger regulator defines the market. And for this specific deal, antitrust questions may arise if investigators sharpen their focus on the dominance Xilinx enjoys in the Chinese market of field-programmable gate array, or FPGA, ruling out the broader competition constraints exerted by computing alternatives such as CPUs and GPUs.As is often the case with deals of this kind, the question of whether the combination of US chipmakers AMD and Xilinx will raise concerns in China depends on how narrowly the merger regulator defines the market....

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