Rambus - M&A Summary and Business Overview

SemiconductorsCompany

Rambus M&A Summary

Rambus has acquired 11 companies, including 6 in the last 5 years. It has also divested 2 assets.

Rambus’ largest acquisition to date was in 2011, when it acquired Cryptography Research for $343M. Rambus has acquired in 3 different US states, and 3 countries. The Company’s most targeted sectors include semiconductors (73%) and information technology (19%).

Rambus Business Overview

Where is Rambus headquartered?

Rambus is headquartered in San Jose, California.

What is Rambus’ revenue?

Rambus disclosed revenue of 461M USD for 2023 and 455M USD for 2022.

How many employees does Rambus have?

Rambus has 623 employees.

What sector is Rambus in?

Rambus is a semiconductors company.

When was Rambus founded?

Rambus was founded in 1990 .

M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity13
    • M&A Buy Activity11
    • M&A Sell Activity2
  • Total Sectors Invested 3
  • Total Countries Invested 3
  • M&A Buy/Sell Connections 5
  • M&A Advisors 1

Rambus

Rambus, Inc.

4453 North First Street, Suite 100,
San Jose, California 95134
United States,
(408) 462-8000
www.rambus.com

Rambus is a provider of chip and system companies with interface solutions that deliver higher performance for a broad range of consumer, computing and communications applications. The Company was formed in 1990 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. Rambus was founded in 1990 and is based in San Jose, California.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 T
Buy (0.6/yr) # 8 - 2 1 - - 11
vol $600M $600M
Sell (0.2/yr) # 1 - - - 1 - 2
  13

Most Recent M&A

Company Date Value Type
Rambus - PHY IP Assets 2023-07-20 - Divestiture
San Jose, California
Hardent, Inc. 2022-05-05 - Add-on Acquisition
Montréal, Quebec · www.hardent.com
AnalogX, Inc. 2021-06-16 - Add-on Acquisition
Toronto, Ontario · www.analogx.io
PLDA SAS 2021-06-16 - Add-on Acquisition
Aix-en-Provence, France · www.plda.com
Verimatrix, Inc. - Silicon IP, Secure Protocols & Provisioning Business 2019-09-03 - Divestiture
San Diego, California
Northwest Logic, Inc. 2019-07-29 - Add-on Acquisition
Hillsboro, Oregon · www.nwlogic.com
Rambus, Inc. - Token Services and Ticketing Businesses 2019-06-25 - Divestiture
, California
Diablo Technologies, Inc. 2019-01-16 - Add-on Acquisition
Ottawa, Ontario
Inphi Corp. - Memory Interconnect Business 2016-06-30 90M USD Divestiture
Santa Clara, California
Semtech Corp. - Snowbush IP 2016-06-06 33M USD Divestiture
Camarillo, California
View All >>

M&A by Sector

Sector Buy # Value Sell # Value
Semiconductors 8 (73%) 158M (26%) 1 (50%) -
Information Technology 2 (18%) 100M (17%) - -
Software 1 (9%) 343M (57%) 1 (50%) -
Total 11 $600M 2 -

By Geo

State/Country Buy Value Sell Value
United States 7 600M 2 -
  California 5 500M 2 -
  Oregon 1 - - -
Canada 3 - - -
  Ontario 2 - - -
  Quebec 1 - - -
France 1 - - -
Domestic 7 (64%) 600M (100%) 2 (100%) -
Cross-border 4 (36%) - - -
Total 11 $600M 2 -

Top M&A Advisors

Financial Deals
Needham & Co. LLC
1

Deal Values

buy # Total
$100M to $1B 1 $343M
< $100M 4 $257M
TOTAL $600M
Largest Cryptography Research, Inc.
$343M (2011-06-06)

M&A Connections

Deals
Acquired from
Strategic(s)
27%
3 (27%)
Divested to
Strategic(s)
100%
2 (100%)

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