Negotiation Strategy
The negotiation of this deal will be driven by the expected synergies of the two companies. These include acquiring new technologies, maximizing the utilization of Intel’s factories, and gaining market share. Intel needs to be aggressive with their offer prices because of the recent influx mergers and acquisitions activity in the semiconductor industry. They do not have a first mover advantage and therefore must offer a premium over Altera’s current stock price valuation. Acquisition will be done on a cash basis, with Altera shareholders receiving approximately $64 per share. Intel will finance the acquisition with cash and new debt. Altera’s current free cash flows of $1,071,430 should cover any interest expense assumed by Intel with the acquisition of new debt.
This acquisition will result in a horizontal integration, as Intel is acquiring complementary production outputs. In the post-closing organization, Altera will become an integrated business unit within Intel. They will retain their engineers and sales force under long-term contingency plans. This means that Altera will no longer have their own stock; only Intel stock will be offered in the market. Furthermore, Altera will continue to manufacture their existing product line under Intel and will work with Intel’s engineers to create new innovative products.
The negotiation will highlight the benefits to Altera. First, with this acquisition, Altera will gain exposure to manufacturing leadership.
On the 1st of June, 2015, Intel announced that they acquired Altera, another chip maker in the high technology industry who is particularly professional in producing programmable chips, by $16.7 billion as well as about $54 per share for Altera shareholders, which was the largest acquisition that Intel ever made (Nusca, 2015). The price is quite close to which was proposed by Intel, but in fact, just two months before Intel approved the acquisition, Altera rejected the price that Intel proposed. In the last few years, Intel suffered from the declining sales of personal computers, of which has been the main profitability source, and has been dominated by Intel for a long time, as consumers switch their preference from laptops and personal computers to tablets and other mobile devices (Huddleston, 2015). As a result, away from PCs, Intel has to work harder to get
Intel operates in an industry, which is comprised of products involving high research and development costs, continuous product improvement and new innovations. The companies in the industry are having high economies of scale and are knowledge based. It helps both the service and manufacturing sectors in the growth process. Intel is positioned as a leading company with its ability to adapt to technological changes and its strong relations with other businesses who are major buyers of integrated circuits. The industry in which it operates is very competitive and comes with high risks as
1. Discuss whether the analysts following Intel appear to have been influenced by any biases, both generally and in their reaction to Intel’s announcement in September 2000 (3 marks).
Prepare responses to the questions below after viewing the Negotiation Strategy and Tactics Tutorial in this week's lecture. In drafting your answers to the questions, make sure that you apply course concepts in your answers.
The Pacific Oil Company went into negotiations with Reliant Manufacturing, and its goal was to sign a more long-term agreement prior to the contract ending in three years. Pacific anticipated that the new contract would be signed with no major obstacles or changes, and that the dominant point of negotiation
The company have many plans initiated to aid improve the company profit. The company had implemented information system in 2006 which had already indentified many opportunities for enhancing profits and revenues. The merger process calls for the increase in the level of sales to $3 billion within five years
Overall, the proposed acquisitions yield the company a combined entity with much better performance in term of profitability such as:
Another way of achieving the profit of the added value is investment in software development to leverage the advantage of the high performance processors. And that was achieved by development of complementors, although Intel had a relationship with Microsoft, but it was enough, since it required Microsoft years to develop the software, were Intel is moving faster, by adopting the strategy of complementors, Intel build its capital. Intel strategy was to invest in companies that fit strategically into Intel’s business strategy as well as offered a financial return.
Intel excels at top-down innovation, where highly differentiated components and electronics command a high gross margin relative to competitors, enabling faster design wins with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and development partners. This top-down innovation flow within Intel is so dominant, that the product design teams are significantly more productive than even the most advanced business process management teams (Segerstrom, 2007). Microprocessors and the follow-on Internet, networking, security and integrated motherboard products are all predicated on this top-down innovation cycle that leads to product line proliferation in Intel (Zimmerman, 2010). DRAMS were undifferentiated in structure, lacked industry standards that could create differentiated performance or compatibility based on adherence or alignment to standards or customer requirements (Nicholson, 1997). Intel chose to compete on the only other area of their core strength as a company, which is quality management and yield levels (Clark, Walz, Turner, Miszuk, 1993). Getting the yields for DRAMS to 60%, which for a brief period of time lead the global industry, only served to accelerate a very high level of commoditization in the industry (Voss, 1998).
Since 1998, Intel has developed and used an e-business strategy to maintain relationships with its customers, employees and suppliers. The company's goal is to become a 100% e-business enabled' corporation. In terms of the value chain concept, Intel has reaped tangible benefits in the volume of business it does on the Web, as well as created savings of time and money for both itself and its customers.
The topic for my real world negotiation is to come to an agreement with my supervisor for a promotion as well as an increased salary. I currently work as a student assistant at the student services Planning, Enrollment Management, and Student Affairs (PEMSA) department. My goal is to increase my hourly pay from $10.15 to $12.70, a 25% increase. Having worked in this department for three years, I have taken on tasks not part of my job description such as processing return mail, data entry, and supervision.
In 2013, Intel spent more than 10.6 billion in Research and Development (R&D), and became the third biggest spender in R&D. Intel invests in R&D to get on with Moore’s Law, an observation by company co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that computing power doubles every two years. As the company works to cram more transistors onto its circuits, development eats most of the company’s R&D spending. “It’s getting more expensive to do the development piece of it
Known as Intel Corporation (Intel) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Intel's revenue base is one of the world's largest and most valuable semiconductor chip makers. Intel chipsets also the motherboard, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing it. Semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore established it on July 18, 1968, and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel's advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing combines capacity.
Discuss how Intel changed ingredient –marketing history. What did it do so well in those initial marketing campaigns?