M&A Deal Summary

Altera Acquires Lime Microsystems

On June 16, 2014, Altera acquired media company Lime Microsystems

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Altera’s 1st transaction in the Media sector.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-06-16
Target Lime Microsystems
Sector Media
Buyer(s) Altera
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Pagemill Partners (Financial)

Target

Lime Microsystems

Surrey,
Lime Microsystems specialises in field programmable RF (FP-RF) transceivers for the next generation of wireless broadband systems.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Altera

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1983
Sector Semiconductors
Employees3,100
Revenue 1.9B USD (2014)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Altera's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Altera's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Altera Corp. is a provider of programmable solutions for electronic systems. Altera supplies access to programmable logic, process technologies, IP cores and development tools.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 7
Sector: Media M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 6
Country: M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 1
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