M&A Deal Summary

Cadence Acquires Neolinear

On April 6, 2004, Cadence acquired semiconductors company Neolinear

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cadence’s 6th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Cadence’s 25th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Cadence’s 1st transaction in Pennsylvania.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2004-04-06
Target Neolinear
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Cadence
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Neolinear

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Neolinear, Inc. is a analog design technology critical for the consumer and communications markets where semiconductors are increasingly differentiated by their analog content. The Neolinear team will bring additional strong A/MS and RF expertise into Cadence and play a key role in driving ongoing innovations for improving yield and speeding IP reuse in the Cadence® Virtuoso® custom design platform.

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Buyer

Cadence

San Jose, California, United States
Category Company
Founded 1987
Sector Software
Employees11,200
Revenue 4.1B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Cadence Design Systems' corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Cadence Design Systems' corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Cadence develops system design enablement solutions that customers use to design whole electronics systems, increasingly small and complex integrated circuits, and electronic devices. Cadence's solutions are designed to help customers reduce the time to bring an electronics system, IC or electronic device to market and to reduce their design, development and manufacturing costs. Cadence's product offerings include electronic design automation, software, emulation and prototyping hardware, system interconnect and analysis and categories of intellectual property referred to as verification IP and design IP. Cadence was founded in 1987 and is based in San Jose, California.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 26 of 51
Sector (Semiconductors) 6 of 10
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 25 of 46
State (Pennsylvania) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 25 of 45
Year (2004) 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-02-10 Axis Systems

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Axis Systems, Inc. provides hardware and software systems for functional verification of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-01-13 Verisity

Mountain View, California, United States

Verisity, Ltd. provides technologies and software products used to verify designs of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits for the communications, computing, and consumer electronics markets worldwide.

Buy $285M
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