M&A Deal Summary

Micrel Acquires Discera

On September 19, 2013, Micrel acquired electronics company Discera

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Micrel’s 1st transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Micrel’s 1st transaction in the United States.
  • This is Micrel’s 1st transaction in California.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-09-19
Target Discera
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) Micrel
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Advisor(s) Woodside Capital Partners (Financial)

Target

Discera

San Jose, California, United States
Discera, Inc. is a timing and clock oscillator company utilizing a proprietary MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical system) resonator enabling lower cost, enhanced ruggedness, smaller size and wider temperature range than historical quartz based solutions.

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Buyer

Micrel

San Jose, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Semiconductors
Employees728
Revenue 237M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Micrel, Inc. is a manufacturer of IC solutions for the worldwide high performance linear and power, LAN and timing and communications markets. Micrel's products include advanced mixed-signal, analog and power semiconductors; high performance communication, clock management, MEMS-based clock oscillators and crystal-less clock generators, Ethernet switch and physical layer transceiver ICs.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 2
Sector: Electronics M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 2 of 2
State: California M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2013 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-03-15 PhaseLink Co.

Taipei, Taiwan

PhaseLink Co., Ltd. is a provider in mixed signal technology for timing source and signal conditioning ICs, in the areas of communications, data storage, and consumer products, and an innovator of many first to market products such as Analog Frequency Multipliers, DualCore LCVCO Multiplier, Triangular Modulation SST and PicoPLL. PhaseLink is principally focused on providing high performance frequency timing (XO, VCXO, EMI Reduction, Programmable Clocks, fanout buffers, and ZDBs) clock IC solutions.

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