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Applied Materials Acquires Orbot Instruments

On January 9, 1997, Applied Materials acquired electrical equipment company Orbot Instruments for 110M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Applied Materials’ 1st transaction in the Electrical Equipment sector.
  • This is Applied Materials’ 9th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Applied Materials’ 2nd transaction in Israel.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 1997-01-09
Target Orbot Instruments
Sector Electrical Equipment
Buyer(s) Applied Materials
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 110M USD

Target

Orbot Instruments

Yavine, Israel
Orbot Instruments, Inc. is a developer, manufactures, markets and services automated optical inspection systems for use in the production of semiconductors. Orbot produces systems for inspecting patterned silicon wafers for yield enhancement during the semiconductor manufacturing process, as well as systems for inspecting the reticles, or masks, which are used during the patterning process.

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Buyer

Applied Materials

Santa Clara, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1967
Sector Semiconductors
Employees36,000
Revenue 27.2B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Applied Materials' corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Applied Materials' corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the global semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic (PV) and related industries. Applied’s customers include manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, flat panel liquid crystal and other displays, solar PV cells and modules, and other electronic devices. Applied Materials was founded in 1967 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 21
Sector: Electrical Equipment M&A 1 of 2
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 16
Country: Israel M&A 2 of 3
Year: 1997 M&A 2 of 2
Size (of disclosed) 9 of 12
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1997-01-09 Opal

Israel

Opal, Inc. is a supplier of CD-SEM systems for use in semiconductor manufacturing. CD-SEM systems use scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) to measure certain critical dimensions (CDs) of integrated circuits at various stages of the manufacturing process.

Buy $175M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1998-10-12 Consilium

Mountain View, California, United States

Consilium, Inc. is a supplier of integrated semiconductor manufacturing execution systems (MES) software and services.

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