M&A Deal Summary

Entropic Communications Acquires PLX Technology - Direct Broadcast Satellite

On July 11, 2012, Entropic Communications acquired semiconductors company PLX Technology - Direct Broadcast Satellite from PLX Technology for 8M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Entropic Communications’ 3rd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Entropic Communications’ 3rd largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Entropic Communications’ 4th transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2012-07-11
Target PLX Technology - Direct Broadcast Satellite
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Entropic Communications
Sellers(s) PLX Technology
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 8M USD

Target

PLX Technology - Direct Broadcast Satellite

United States
Direct Broadcast Satellite design and development of a digital channel stacking switch.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Entropic Communications

San Diego, California, United States

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Category Company
Founded 2001
Sector Semiconductors
Employees639
Revenue 259M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Entropic Communications, Inc. is a manufacturer of LAN and WAN coax networking for home digital entertainment. Entropic's products allow consumers to easily share digital entertainment throughout the home by leveraging the existing coax infrastructure to fundamentally change the way content such as movies, music, and images are stored and networked by the average user.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 6
Sector (Semiconductors) 3 of 4
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 4 of 5
Year (2012) 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-04-12 Trident Microsystems - Set Top Box Business

United States

Trident Microsystems - Set Top Box Business comprises business unit that manufactures digital set-top box components and system solutions for worldwide satellite, terrestrial, cable, and IPTV networks such as STB SoCs, DOCSIS modems, interface devices, and media processors.

Buy $65M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-06-06 Mobius Semiconductor

Irvine, California, United States

Mobius Semiconductor, Inc. is a product development company focused on low power, high performance analog mixed-signal semiconductor solutions. Mobius products include high speed ADCs, DACs, ADPLLs, SERDES and proprietary Intellectual Property to achieve leading performance.

Buy $13M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

PLX Technology

Sunnyvale, California, United States

website

Category Company
Founded 1986
Sector Semiconductors
Employees157
DESCRIPTION

PLX Technology, Inc., is a provider of semiconductor-based connectivity solutions primarily targeting the enterprise and consumer markets. PLX provides manufacturers worldwide with innovative software-enriched silicon through feature differentiation, high-quality interoperability and superior performance.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector (Semiconductors) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2012) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-10-05 PLX Technology - UK Design Team and Certain Assets

United Kingdom

PLX Technology - UK Design Team and Certain Assets provides designing innovative and reliable system-on-chip (SOC) solutions and the acquired engineering team's expertise provides OCZ with additional resources for controller design.

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