On April 1, the analog IC manufacturer Darwin's official website announced that it has completed the acquisition of Texas Instruments' wafer fabrication plant and operations unit (GFAB) in Greenock, Scotland.

It is expected that chip sales will be revived in the second half of the year, but Wall Street investment banker Bernstein has a different view and downgrades the ratings of Texas Instruments and Analog Devices. Affected by this news, the US semiconductor giant Texas Instruments (TXN-US) fell sharply, once hit a low of 106.53 US dollars per share, so far this year has risen about 14%. After Philadelphia Semiconductor opened higher, the shocks went down.

This year, global semiconductor investment has slowed down. SEMI (International Semiconductor Industry Association) announced today (22) that North American semiconductor equipment manufacturers' shipments continued to decline in February, down 1.7% to 1.86 billion US dollars, reaching nearly 25 months. New low.