M&A Deal Summary

AMD Acquires Xilinx

On October 27, 2020, AMD acquired semiconductors company Xilinx for 35.0B USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is AMD’s 6th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is AMD’s largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is AMD’s 7th transaction in the United States.
  • This is AMD’s 4th transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2020-10-27
Target Xilinx
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) AMD
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 35.0B USD

Target

Xilinx

San Jose, California, United States
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Xilinx's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies. The Company's products include integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips (SoCs) and three-dimensional ICs, or 3D ICs; software design tools to program the PLDs; targeted reference designs; and printed circuit boards. In addition to its programmable platforms, Xilinx provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support. Xilinx was established in 1984 and is based in San Jose, California.

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Buyer

AMD

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1969
Sector Semiconductors
Employees26,000
Revenue 22.7B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Advanced Micro Devices' corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
Advanced Micro Devices' corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

AMD is a multinational semiconductor company that develops computer processors and related technologies for commercial and consumer markets. AMD was founded in 1969 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 8 of 12
Sector (Semiconductors) 6 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 8 of 12
State (California) 4 of 6
Country (United States) 7 of 10
Year (2020) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 1 of 6
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DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Austin, Texas, United States

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-04-04 Pensando Systems

Milpitas, California, United States

Pensando Systems is a distributed services platform computing designed for the New Edge, powering software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services to transform existing architectures into the secure, ultra-fast environments demanded by next generation applications. Pensando Systems was formed in 2017 and is based in Milpitas, California.

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