Recently, MediaTek announced that it will acquire Intel’s Enpirion power management chip product line through its subsidiary Richtek, with an estimated total transaction value of approximately US$85 million (approximately 560 million yuan). MediaTek stated in the announcement that the purpose of this acquisition is to expand the company’s product line, providing integrated high-frequency and high-efficiency power solutions used in FPGA, SoC, CPU, and ASIC, targeting enterprise-level system applications and helping to expand business scale. Improve business performance and competitiveness.

Before this acquisition, Intel and MediaTek already had a deep foundation for cooperation. Since Intel sold its baseband business to Apple for $1 billion last year, entering the 5G era, Intel has to find new partners if it wants to integrate 5G technology into PCs.