According to Reuters, Qualcomm is likely to get approval from European antitrust regulators too, before the end of this year.

The wire reports a reliable source is responsible for the leak and that will give Qualcomm a fillip and strengthen its arm against a proposed takeover bid from US giant Broadcomm.

NXP, a spun off subsidiary of former Dutch giant Philips, forms part of Qualcomm’s plans to position itself as a major player in several important and highly lucrative semiconductor businesses.

Broadcom has rather a disappointing range of semiconductors which don’t exactly set the world alight.