{"id":1034542,"date":"2026-09-11T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034542"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:17:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T02:47:32","slug":"analog-devices-to-buy-alif-semiconductor-for-1-5-bn-to-expand-into-physical-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/11\/analog-devices-to-buy-alif-semiconductor-for-1-5-bn-to-expand-into-physical-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Analog Devices to buy Alif Semiconductor for $1.5 bn to expand into physical intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Analog Devices (ADI) said on Thursday it is buying Alif Semiconductor in an all-cash deal for $1.5 billion to strengthen its physical intelligence capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, ADI may pay an incremental contingent consideration of up to $200 million. The transaction is expected to close before the end of calendar year 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.<\/p>\n<p>This comes against the backdrop of the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from merely interpreting words to interacting with the physical world, requiring systems that can reason with analog signals and operate within constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Analog Devices (ADI) said on Thursday it is buying Alif Semiconductor in an all-cash deal for $1.5 billion to strengthen its physical intelligence capabilities. In addition, ADI may pay an incremental contingent consideration of up to $200 million. The transaction is expected to close before the end of calendar year 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. This comes against the backdrop of the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) from merely interpreting words to interacting with the physical world, requiring systems that can reason with analog signals and operate within constraints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034559,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034542\/revisions\/1034559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}