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The State Administration for Market Regulation, or SAMR, claimed the chip maker failed to declare full information in its acquisition of Israeli semiconductor company Autotalks.

Management expects the acquisition to lift monthly revenue by over 10%.

As well as tightening rules for exports of rare earths, China has opened a monopoly investigation into the US tech firm Qualcomm that could stall its acquisition of another chipmaker.

But like all drugmakers regularly dealing with patent expirations, J&J has turned to a mix of in-house development and acquisitions to refill its offerings.

She spent 17 years at Reuters, covering mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications and airlines.