M&A Deal Summary

Intel Acquires QLogic - InfiniBand Assets

On January 23, 2012, Intel acquired technology hardware company QLogic - InfiniBand Assets from QLogic for 125M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Intel’s 23rd transaction in the Technology Hardware sector.
  • This is Intel’s 20th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Intel’s 41st transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2012-01-23
Target QLogic - InfiniBand Assets
Sector Technology Hardware
Buyer(s) Intel
Sellers(s) QLogic
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 125M USD

Target

QLogic - InfiniBand Assets

United States
InfiniBand is a fabric technology that can be used to connect servers in high-performance computing environments.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Intel

Santa Clara, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Semiconductors
Employees108,900
Revenue 53.1B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Intel's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
Entrance to Intel's corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California.

Intel is a multinational semiconductor chip maker. The Company's products are incorporated into desktop computers, wearables, servers, tablets, smartphones, and other devices. Intel was formed in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 55 of 97
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 23 of 30
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 7 of 9
Country: United States M&A 41 of 62
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 4
Size (of disclosed) 20 of 29
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-07-19 Fulcurm Microsystems

Calabasas, California, United States

Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company that designs Ethernet switch silicon for data center network providers.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-04-17 Olaworks

Seoul, South Korea

Olaworks was founded in 2006 by its former CEO, Junghee Ryu, of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Olaworks was one of the early companies to dedicate itself first to computer vision (primarily face recognition) and then to apply its intellectual property to solve Augmented Reality challenges.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

QLogic

Aliso Viejo, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1992
Sector Semiconductors
Employees782
Revenue 459M USD (2016)
DESCRIPTION

QLogic Corp. is a provider of high performance storage networking solutions including Fibre Channel host bus adapters (HBAs), blade server embedded Fibre Channel switches, Fibre Channel stackable switches, iSCSI HBAs, iSCSI routers and storage services platforms for enabling advanced storage management applications.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Technology Hardware M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 2 of 2
Country: United States M&A 2 of 2
Year: 2012 M&A 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-04-30 NetXen

Cupertino, California, United States

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