2017年CRI Chinese-backed invest firm set to purchase UK chip designer

 

Chinese-backed investment firm Canyon¹ Bridge is reportedly set to buy UK technology firm Imagination.

This came months after the British chip designer put itself up for sale in June, after its largest customer Apple announced it'll stop using its products.

The 550 million pound, or 740 million U.S. dollar deal, is not Canyon Bridge's first deal to purchase a Western tech company.

Canyon Bridge had been seeking approval for a 1.3-billion-U.S.-dollar deal to buy U.S. chipmaker Lattice Semiconductor², but the sale was barred by the Trump³ administration.

With more on this, the Beijing Hour's Shane Bigham spoke⁴ earlier with Mike Bastin, director of China Business Center with Southampton Solent University in the UK.

1 canyon   

n.峡谷，溪谷

参考例句：

• The Grand Canyon in the USA is 1900 metres deep.美国的大峡谷1900米深。
• The canyon is famous for producing echoes.这个峡谷以回声而闻名。

2 semiconductor   

n.半导体

参考例句：

• In the beginning,engineers hoped to use semiconductor lasers.在开始时，工程师们希望能够利用半导体激光器。
• The main agent of the company brand semiconductor sales.本公司主要代理各品牌半导体销售。

3 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。