M&A Deal Summary

Cavium Acquires Celestial Semiconductor Co.

On January 31, 2011, Cavium acquired semiconductors company Celestial Semiconductor Co.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Cavium’s 2nd transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Cavium’s 1st transaction in China.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-01-31
Target Celestial Semiconductor Co.
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Cavium
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Steelhead Advisors (Financial)

Target

Celestial Semiconductor Co.

Beijing, China
Celestial Semiconductor (Beijing) Co., Ltd. provides system-on-chip (SoC) and software solutions for DTV, IPTV, Internet TV, and mobile media applications.

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Buyer

Cavium

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 2000
Sector Semiconductors
Employees1,005
Revenue 603M USD (2016)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Cavium's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.
Entrance to Cavium's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California.

Cavium, Inc. is a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired & wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to over 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 5
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 2 of 4
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 5
Country: China M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 1 of 1
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