M&A Deal Summary

Intel Acquires Silicon Hive BV

On March 17, 2011, Intel acquired semiconductors company Silicon Hive BV from Prime Ventures

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Intel’s 12th transaction in the Semiconductors sector.
  • This is Intel’s 1st transaction in the Netherlands.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2011-03-17
Target Silicon Hive BV
Sector Semiconductors
Buyer(s) Intel
Sellers(s) Prime Ventures
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Silicon Hive BV

Eindhoven, Netherlands
Silicon Hive BV develop compiler and other parallel processing tools to help make programming on system-on-chip (SoC) components easier, exploiting all the parallelism on cores and the chips to do more work for less heat.

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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 52 of 97
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 12 of 20
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 43 of 83
Country: Netherlands M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2011 M&A 3 of 5
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-03-14 SySDSoft

Cairo, Egypt

SySDSoft designs state-of-the-art IP solutions in the software stack and physical layer domain, and RF/analog circuits embedded in mobile platforms.

Buy -
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-05-25 SiPort

Santa Clara, California, United States

SiPort Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company. Offers SP1010 Terrestrial Digital Broadcast Receiver.

Buy -

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Prime Ventures

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Venture Capital Firm
Founded 1999
PE ASSETS 750M EUR
Size Middle-Market
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

Prime Ventures is a venture capital and growth equity firm focusing on investing in European companies in the technology and related industries. Prime is based in Amsterdam with an additional office in Cambridge.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 7 of 19
Sector: Semiconductors M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 6 of 15
Country: Netherlands M&A 7 of 15
Year: 2011 M&A 3 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-01-19 Liquavista BV

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Liquavista BV is a developer of electronic display technology called “electrowetting.” Electrowetting technology has the potential to create bright and colorful images that ensure excellent indoor and outdoor readability while using less battery power than traditional displays.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2011-04-04 3mensio Medical Imaging BV

Bilthoven, Netherlands

3mensio Medical Imaging originally started developing advanced imaging software for the radiology department, which was based on 3D image reconstruction and analysis of standard CTA images.

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