M&A Deal Summary

ARM Acquires ARM Norway AS

On June 23, 2006, ARM acquired semiconductors company ARM Norway AS

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ARM’s 3rd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is ARM’s 1st transaction in Norway.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2006-06-23
Target ARM Norway AS
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) ARM
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

ARM Norway AS

Trondheim, Norway
Falanx Microsystems AS, an innovative graphics IP company. The privately-owned company is headquartered in Trondheim, Norway, and has net assets of NOK 2 million.

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Buyer

ARM

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Category Company
Founded 1990
Sector Semiconductors
Employees8,330
Revenue 4.0B USD (2025)
DESCRIPTION

ARM is a semiconductor chip designer that offers 32-bit RISC microprocessors, graphics processors, enabling software, cell libraries, embedded memories, high-speed connectivity products, peripherals, and development tools. Combined with comprehensive design services, training, support, and maintenance, the company's broad Partner community provides a total system solution to the market for electronics companies. ARM was formed in 1990 and is based in Cambridge, England.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 23
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 3 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 4 of 19
Country: Norway M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2006 M&A 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-12-24 Artisan Components

Sunnyvale, California,

Artisan Components, Inc. is a leading provider of physical intellectual property (IP) components for the design and manufacture of complex system-on-a-chip integrated circuits. Artisan's products include embedded memory, standard cell, input/output, analog and mixed-signal components, which are designed to achieve the best combination of performance, density, power and yield for a given manufacturing process. Artisan has licensed its IP components to over 2,000 companies involved in integrated circuit design. Artisan is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2006-10-31 Silicon on Insulator Systems and Integrated Circuits

Grenoble, France

SOISIC is the world’s leading company in semiconductor IP for Silicon On Insulator (“SOI”) technologies. The company has worked across the globe in multiple SOI processes and nodes from 0.25um down to 90nm, both in ultra low power and high performance. SOISIC has helped the world’s leading companies to begin their SOI development and to use SOI for low power applications.

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