In 2015:

• March 1: Socionext is founded by Fujitsu and Panasonic
• April 9: U.S. Department of Energy announces a plan for two new supercomputers: a 180 PFLOPS Aurora and Theta
• May 27: Avago acquires Broadcom for $37 billion
• June 1: Intel acquires Altera for $16.7 billion