Most Read articles – TSMC vs Intel, Xilinx SmartNICs, Microchip centre Time once more to see the five most read articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com that were written in the last week, via the stats of Google Analytics. It’s a chance to see what your peers have been reading. What are the topics covered this week? There’s Lockheed Martin’s acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, Microchip’s new Cork development centre, Silicon Labs selling analogue assets, Xilinx’s Aleveo SmartNICs and a comparison of Intel and TSMC process nodes… At the start of the year Lockheed Martin announced its intention to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne, the aerospace and defence rocket engine manufacturer, in a transaction valued at $4.4 billion. Since then there have been reports that Raytheon Technologies planned to formally oppose the deal – Aerojet Rocketdyne’s engines are also used by Raytheon as well as Lockheed. Lockheed Martin has now confirmed – as it expected – a request for additional information from the US Federal Trade Commission.