M&A Deal Summary

Broadcom Acquires Infineon Technologies AG - Polymer Optical Fiber Business

On April 2, 2007, Broadcom acquired semiconductors company Infineon Technologies AG - Polymer Optical Fiber Business from Infineon Technologies

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

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2007-04-02
Target Infineon Technologies AG - Polymer Optical Fiber Business
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Broadcom
Sellers(s) Infineon Technologies
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Infineon Technologies AG - Polymer Optical Fiber Business

Regensburg, Germany
Infineon Technologies AG - Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) Business is the fast growing market for automotive multimedia infotainment networks and transceivers for safety systems. This business unit also provides transmitters and receivers for transportation switching and home broadband services.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Broadcom

Palo Alto, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1961
Sector Semiconductors
Employees37,000
Revenue 51.6B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Broadcom is a designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog semiconductor devices with a focus on III-V based products. Broadcom was founded in 1961 and is based in Palo Alto, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 17
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 1 of 5
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 3 of 5
Country: Germany M&A 3 of 4
Year: 2007 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-02 Infineon - Polymer Optical Fiber Business

Regensburg, Germany

Infineon’s Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) operates in the market for automotive multimedia infotainment networks and transceivers for safety systems. This business unit also provides transmitters and receivers for transportation switching and home broadband services.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-09-30 Infineon - Bulk Acoustic Wave Business

Munich, Germany

Infineon’s bulk acoustic wave (BAW) business is a provider of high precision RF filtering for wireless applications.

Buy €22M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Infineon Technologies

Neubiberg, Germany

Category Company
Founded 1999
Sector Semiconductors
Employees56,371
Revenue 15.0B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Infineon Technologies offers semiconductors and system solutions for automotive and industrial electronics and chip card and security applications. Infineon Technologies was founded in 1999 and is based in Neubiberg, Germany.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 10 of 18
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 3 of 9
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 10 of 18
Country: Germany M&A 9 of 14
Year: 2007 M&A 4 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2007-04-02 Infineon - Polymer Optical Fiber Business

Regensburg, Germany

Infineon’s Polymer Optical Fiber (POF) operates in the market for automotive multimedia infotainment networks and transceivers for safety systems. This business unit also provides transmitters and receivers for transportation switching and home broadband services.

Sell -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
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United States

Texas Instruments - DSL CPE Business is a provider of DSL Customer Premises Equipment products with field deployments at major carriers worldwide.

Buy -