In 2016:

• January 19: Microchip Technology acquires Atmel for $3.6 Billion
• January 13: Fixstars announces the world's first 13 TB solid state drive (SSD), double the largest capacity to that date
• March 22: Intel phased out their Tick-Tock model in favor of a Process-Architecture-Optimization model.
• April 4: Brocade acquires Ruckus Wireless for $1.2 Billion
• April 28: Cypress Semiconductor acquires Broadcom's Wireless Internet of Things Business for $550 million
• June 15: Cavium acquires QLogic for $1.36 billion
• June 17: UC Davis presents the KiloCore, a 1,000-core processor, at the 2016 Symposia.
• June 20:
  • Intel introduces Xeon E5 v4 series (Broadwell E5's)
  • China introduces the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer, the world's fastest supercomputer at the time
• July 26: Phytium Technology announces their FT-1500A family has reached tape-out
• August 9: Intel buys Nervana Systems for $350-$410 million
• August 21: Day 1: Hot Chips 28 - Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips
• August 22:
  • Day 2: Hot Chips 28
    • ARM Holdings showcases the Mali-G71
    • ARM Holdings introduces the ARMv8-A architecture
    • NVIDIA showcases Pascal GPU and NVLink
    • NVIDIA introduces the Tegra-Next SoC
    • Mediatek showcases the Helio X20
    • Samsung showcases the Exynos-M1
• August 23:
  • Day 3: Hot Chips 28
    • Princeton introduces the Piton
    • UC Davis showcases the KiloCore
    • Intel showcases Skylake
    • IBM talks about POWER9
    • AMD introduces Zen
• August 8: Stanford-led research suggests phase-change memory can be made to consume less power and performing as much as 1,000x faster
• August 30: Intel release first Kaby Lake processors
• August 30: Intel release first Goldmont processors
• September 2: University of Wisconsin-Madison materials engineers have created, for the first time, carbon nanotube transistors that outperform state-of-the-art silicon transistors
• September 6: Intel acquires Movidius, a computer vision startup
• September 7: Apple introduces A10 processor for their iPhone 7 and 7 Plus models
• September 9: Intel acquires Soft Machines, a semiconductor startup who designed the VISC Architecture
• September 16: Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and Technical University of Munich achieve speeds of 1 Tb/s transmission rate over optical fiber
• September 20: Sandisk announces the world's first 1 terabyte SD card at Photokina 2016
• October 15: Qualcomm acquires CSR for $2.5 billion
• October 17: Australian engineers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) created a new qubit which remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved
• October 27: Qualcomm acquires NXP for $47 billion
• October 31: Researchers from Penn State announced a space-charge-controlled KTN beam deflector technique that can be used to increase the speed of 3D printing by up to 1000 times
• November 1: Researchers at Rockefeller University developed a new method called "light sculpting", allowing them to view the neurons of a mouse brain firing in 3D in real-time
• November 3:
  • Broadcom acquires Brocade for $5.9 billion
  • Canyon Bridge Capital Partners Inc. acquires Lattice Semiconductor for $1.3 billion
  • Adobe announced Project VoCo, "Photoshop for Voice" software that allows for accurate replication for any person's voice, allowing modification of the original speaker's recording
• November 14: Samsung acquires Harman International Industries for $8 billion