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Hawk Tan is shaking up the tech world.

In just four years, he has turned a semiconductor company from an also-ran into one of the sector's biggest players. Now he's taking Broadcom into what seems to be turning into a potentially hostile bid for Qualcomm. Rob Seren is joining us here in New York to talk about what's at stake. Welcome, Rob.

Hey, John.

Okay, so there's a lot going on in this deal I mean a whole

a whole lot yeah so it's so why don't you just take us through just the fundamental so let's just

step a whole really far back and so what's happened in the chip industry is that the chip industry

isn't growing as much as it used it used to be like this dynamic industry and every year there

were new and better faster chips. That's slowed down a lot and it's becoming more expensive to develop

new chips. What that means is that growth is slowed for all these chip companies out there.

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