M&A Deal Summary

OmniVision Acquires CDM Optics

On March 31, 2005, OmniVision acquired electronics company CDM Optics for 30M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is OmniVision’s 1st transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is OmniVision’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is OmniVision’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is OmniVision’s 1st transaction in Colorado.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2005-03-31
Target CDM Optics
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) OmniVision
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 30M USD

Target

CDM Optics

Boulder, Colorado, United States
CDM is the exclusive licensee of patented Wavefront Coding technology, which increases the performance of a camera system by increasing the depth of field or correcting optical aberrations of a photographic image.

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Buyer

OmniVision

Santa Clara, California, United States

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Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Technology Hardware
Employees2,057
Revenue 1.4B USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

OmniVision Technologies is a developer of advanced digital imaging solutions. Its CMOS imaging technology enables superior image quality in many of today's consumer and commercial applications, including mobile phones, notebooks, netbooks and webcams, security and surveillance, entertainment, digital still and video cameras, automotive and medical imaging systems. OmniVision was founded in 1995 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector (Electronics) 1 of 1
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 1 of 2
State (Colorado) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 2
Year (2005) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 2
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2010-03-25 Aurora Systems

San Jose, California, United States

Aurora Systems is a fabless manufacturer of microdisplay semiconductors used to generate high definition video for projection televisions and projectors. Based on heavily patented technology, Aurora has developed a Liquid Crystal on Semiconductor (LCOS) solution which has the advantage of producing televisions at lower cost and with superior picture quality when compared to LCD, Plasma, and DLP technologies.

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