China is speculated to be close to wrapping up Xilinx/AMD deal review
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Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) planned purchase of Xilinx (NASDAQ:XLNX) is speculated to be close to being finished by China's antitrust regulator.
There's talk in recent days that the China's State Administration for Market Regulation or SAMR is close to wrapping up its review of the deal, according to a Dealreporter article. There's also speculation that China's NDRC has approved the deal.

The latest speculation comes after AMD and XLNX last week said that the transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022 rather than last year as the parties have not yet secured all approvals.
Risk arb investors are hoping that China can approval the deal before the deal's U.S. antitrust clearance one-year anniversary on Jan. 11, which would require the companies to do a new HSR filing if its not approved by that date, according to the report.
Last month PaRR reported that China's antitrust regulator is still said to be market testing remedies proposed for the deal.
Earlier in December a report circulated that the transaction was said to see no major objections from 3rd parties in Chinese review.