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ARM Acquires ARM Sweden AB

On February 10, 2009, ARM acquired semiconductors company ARM Sweden AB from Anoto Group AB

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is ARM’s 4th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is ARM’s 1st transaction in Sweden.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2009-02-10
Target ARM Sweden AB
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) ARM
Sellers(s) Anoto Group AB
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

ARM Sweden AB

Lund, Sweden
ARM Sweden AB is a leading Sweden-based video IP company. The privately-owned designer of power-efficient video encode and decode acceleration technologies for the mobile and consumer markets is the leading provider of video IP to one of the world’s leading mobile technology suppliers for platforms used by LG Electronics and two other leading mobile handset OEMs.

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Buyer(S) 1

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 7 of 23
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 4 of 5
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 3
Country: Sweden M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-07 ARM - SoC Designer tool

United States

ARM - SoC Designer tool., SoC Designer tool to a new environment based upon models generated directly from ARM register transfer level (RTL) code.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-06-17 Obsidian Software

Austin, Texas, United States

Obsidian Software, a privately held company, has been providing processor verification products, verification consulting and training services to processor designers since 1997. Obsidian's RAVEN software has been used by many of the world's leading semiconductor companies. Obsidian Software has been recognized as part of the INC500, Austin Heavy Hitters and Austin Fast 50.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Anoto Group AB

Lund, Sweden
Category Company
Sector Information Technology
DESCRIPTION

Anoto is a publicly-listed company concentrating on digital pen technology.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: Sweden M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2009 M&A 1 of 1
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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Oakland, California, United States

Livescribe Inc. is a provider of web-enabled computing pens and associated technology.

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