Editing 2016

{{year|year=2016}}
In '''2016''':

* January: [[CCIX Consortium]] is created
* January 13: [[Fixstars]] announces the world's first 13 TB [[solid state drive]] (SSD), double the largest capacity to that date
* January 19: [[Microchip Technology]] acquires [[Atmel]] for $3.6 Billion
* February 5-9: [[IEEE]] [[International Solid-State Circuits Conference]] (ISSCC)
* March 22: Intel phased out their {{intel|Tick-Tock}} model in favor of a {{intel|Process-Architecture-Optimization}} model.
* April 4: [[Brocade]] acquires [[Ruckus Wireless]] for $1.2 Billion
* April 21: [[AMD]] proposes {{x86|Secure Memory Encryption}}, a new full memory encryption {{x86|extension}} for [[x86]]
* 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 {{ucdavis|KiloCore}}, a 1,000-core processor, at the 2016 Symposia.
* June 20:
** Intel introduces {{intel|Xeon E5|Xeon E5 v4}} series ({{intel|Broadwell|l=arch}} E5's)
** China introduces the [[Sunway TaihuLight]] supercomputer, the world's fastest supercomputer at the time
* July 26: [[Phytium Technology]] announces their {{phytium|FT-1500A|FT-1500A family}} has reached tape-out
* August 9: Intel buys [[Nervana Systems]] for $350-$410 million
* August 17-21: [[Gamescom]] 2016
* August 21: Day 1: Hot Chips 28 - Hot Chips: A Symposium on High Performance Chips
* August 22: 
** Day 2: Hot Chips 28
*** [[ARM Holdings]] presented the {{armh|Mali-G71}}
*** ARM Holdings introduces the {{arm|ARMv8-A}} architecture
*** [[NVIDIA]] presented {{nvidia|Pascal}} GPU and {{nvidia|NVLink}} 
*** NVIDIA introduces the {{nvidia|Tegra-Next}} SoC
*** [[Mediatek]] presented the {{mediatek|Helio X20}}
*** [[Samsung]] presented the {{samsung|Exynos-M1}}
* August 23: 
** Day 3: Hot Chips 28
*** [[Princeton]] introduces the {{princeton|Piton}}
*** [[UC Davis]] presented the {{ucdavis|KiloCore}}
*** Intel presented {{intel|Skylake}}
*** [[IBM]] presented about {{ibm|POWER9}}
*** [[AMD]] presented {{amd|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 {{intel|Kaby Lake}} processors
* August 30: Intel release first {{intel|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 {{apple|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
* December 3-7: [[IEEE]] [[International Electron Devices Meeting]] (IEDM)
* November 14: [[Samsung]] acquires Harman International Industries for $8 billion
* November 17: Nervana announces {{nervana|Lake Crest|l=arch}}
* November 21: [[MACOM]] acquires [[AppliedMicro]] for $770 million
* December 7: [[Qualcomm]] announces the {{qualcomm|Centriq}} family of processors, their first direct attempt at entering the server market
* December 7: The [[Bluetooth Special Interest Group]] has officially ratified [[Bluetooth]] 5.
* December 13: AMD introduces the {{amd|Ryzen}} family of performance processors based on {{amd|Zen|l=arch}}
* December 21: [[TDK]] acquires [[InvenSense]] for $1.3 billion