M&A Deal Summary

Broadcom Acquires Mobilink Telecom

On May 29, 2002, Broadcom acquired semiconductors company Mobilink Telecom

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Broadcom’s 2nd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Broadcom’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Broadcom’s 3rd transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2002-05-29
Target Mobilink Telecom
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Broadcom
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Mobilink Telecom

Santa Clara, California, United States
Mobilink Telecom, Inc. is a supplier of chipsets and reference designs for use in cellular phones, cellular modem cards and wireless PDAs.

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Buyer

Broadcom

Irvine, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1991
Sector Semiconductors
Employees12,500
Revenue 8.4B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
Broadcom facility in San Jose, California.
Broadcom facility in San Jose, California.

Broadcom is a global provider of semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom was formed in 1991 and is based in Irvine, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 28
Sector (Semiconductors) 2 of 22
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 3 of 25
State (California) 3 of 18
Country (United States) 3 of 23
Year (2002) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2000-10-17 Allayer Communications

San Jose, California, United States

Allayer Communications is a producer of high bandwidth network ICs for the enterprise and optical network. The company develops scalable network architectures and mixed-signal switching and routing ICs for the Gigabit/Fast Ethernet and optical network markets. Founded in 1997, Allayer's corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California.

Buy $276M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2003-03-03 Gadzoox Networks

San Jose, California, United States

Gadzoox Networks, Inc. is a provider of storage networking technology. Storage networks connect servers, switches and storage systems together to lower the total cost of ownership in business data centers.

Buy $6M
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