FILE PHOTO: A scientist presents a silicon wafer during a media presentation in one of the low particle pollution nanofabrication clean rooms of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Ecublens, near Lausanne May 16, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin Flauraud/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Taiwan's GlobalWafers made what it said was a final attempt to save a 4.35 billion euro ($5.3 billion) bid for Germany's Siltronic on Monday by lowering the minimum acceptance threshold and extending its offer deadline.
The proposed deal would combine GlobalWafers, the number three player in the 300 millimetre wafers market and Siltronic, the fourth biggest, to create the world's second-largest player behind Japan's Shin-Etsu.
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