美光科技

实际上，最终发起的反击采取了更为美国的形式：一家名为美光科技（MicronTechnology）的创业企业，公司所在地令人意外地位于爱达荷州博伊西。

Instead , the fight back , when it came , took a far more American form : an entrepreneurial start-up from the unlikely location of Boise , Idaho , called Micron Technology .

但是，就在同一天，急需现金的存储类芯片巨人Hynix公司的董事会断然拒绝了美国的一家竞争对手美国美光科技公司的收购建议，此举令市场大为震惊。

But on the same day , the board of Hynix , a cash-strapped memory-chip giant , shocked the markets by rejecting a proposed takeover by Micron Technology , an American competitor .

据报道，得到中国政府支持的投资集团清华紫光（TsinghuaUnigroup）有意收购美国最大内存芯片制造商美光科技（Micron）。

Tsinghua Unigroup , the Chinese state-backed investment group , is reportedly interested in buying Micron , the US 's biggest memory chipmaker .

个人电脑（PC）销售趋缓是部分原因——美光科技60%的销售额来自用于PC和服务器的D-Ram芯片。

Slow PC sales are partly to blame - 60 per cent of Micron 's sales are D-Ram chips , which are used in PCs and servers .

去年中国国有半导体企业清华紫光（TsinghuaUnigroup）曾计划以230亿美元收购美国芯片制造商美光科技（MicronTechnology），结果根本未能启动，部分原因是这笔交易据信无法越过监管障碍。

A planned $ 23bn bid for chipmaker Micron by Tsinghua Unigroup , the Chinese state-owned semiconductor business , never got off the ground last year , in part because it was believed the deal would hit a regulatory brick wall .

美光科技公司曾出价约34亿美元来购买Hynix公司的核心芯片业务，并在非存储类芯片业务内占少数股份。

Micron had offered to pay about $ 3.4 billion for Hynix 's core memory business , and to take a minority stake in the non-memory arm .

美光科技和清华紫光结盟可能具有一定的战略逻辑。

A tie-up between Micron and Unigroup could have some strategic logic .

中国也是美光科技的最大市场，去年占其销售额的40%。

And China is Micron 's biggest market , accounting for 40 per cent of sales last year .

美光科技看起来物有所值：由于内存芯片销售情况令人失望，美光科技的股价今年已下跌50%。

Micron looks like good value : its stock has fallen 50 per cent this year as sales of memory chips have disappointed .

不管清华紫光是否要收购美光科技，这些交易传言发出了一个强大信号：半导体行业或许已接近谷底。

Regardless of whether Unigroup buys Micron , the deal rumours send a strong signal : the semiconductor industry may be near a trough .